> What would need to change in order for these housing cooperatives to expand enough to reduce waiting lists to <1 year? Waiting times are less than a year if

> What would need to change in order for these housing cooperatives to expand enough to reduce waiting lists to <1 year? Waiting times are less than a year if you have an urgent need (eg growing family) and are willing to accept unpopular locations (eg next to a highway exit). But in general the waiting times are too long. The biggest problem is that the regional government is conservative/nationalist and strongly influenced by a large bank that does a lot of property development. So there are a lot of political obstacles to new developments by cooperatives. I feel that the cooperatives are a remnant of the times when the social-democrats had more influence.