The city center is almost all historical buildings except for a few parts where those have been torn down a few decades ago - something that left a very bitter

The city center is almost all historical buildings except for a few parts where those have been torn down a few decades ago - something that left a very bitter aftertaste, it created what csn only be described as open sores in the city core that hasn't really healed yet - although it has started to get there in the last few years. People in Stockholm generally don't vote for the people that want to build public/rent controlled housing, so there is no mystery there is a shortage. It has also been enormously lucrative to own your home the last 25-30 years or so as the interest has plummeted from 8% to 1.5-2%, so almost all rentals has been converted to bostadrätter (a kind of co-operative building society apartment) which you have to buy in to. To me it sounds like Spotify and many other tech startups are just being babies and not trying to solve their own problems - they want to be in Stockholm because it is an attractive place to live, but they don't want their employees to have to pay for the fact that the city is attractive ? Tough luck.