I really don't think you can look at something like rent control in isolation and say "rent control good" or "rent control bad", because how well it works reall

I really don't think you can look at something like rent control in isolation and say "rent control good" or "rent control bad", because how well it works really depends on what other regulatory decisions you make. Something worth mentioning for example (which the article doesn't), is that between 2007 and 2014, around 26,000 rented apartments (hyresrätter) in Stockholm were sold by the municipality and turned into owned apartments (bostadsrätter). The percentage of owned apartments in Stockholm went from being 44% in 2006 to 55% in 2013 [1]. If you self-sabotage the existing rent control regulations by reducing the supply of rented apartments, then of course the waiting times will increase, which you can then use as an argument to try to abolish rent control. [1] https://www.svd.se/ett-paradigmskifte-pa-stockholms-bostadsmarknad https://www.svd.se/ett-paradigmskifte-pa-stockholms-bostadsm...