>After ww2, there was a housing shortage in most European countries because people were moving from rural areas to cities. I don't think the shortages were solv

>After ww2, there was a housing shortage in most European countries because people were moving from rural areas to cities. I don't think the shortages were solved until governments stepped in and built price-controlled rental apartments on a massive scale. The idea is that what did the trick was not the "price-controlled rental apartments" but the "built (...) on a massive scale"