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Sweden doesn't have social housing. What you are discussing is called rent control and means that landlords can't decide rents for their properties by themselve
by bjourne 5y ago
Sweden doesn't have social housing. What you are discussing is called rent control and means that landlords can't decide rents for their properties by themselves. Without rent control you'd get even more segregated cities as many areas would become too expensive for most to live. Landlords and their lobby organizations want rent control abolished though because doubled rents would greatly increase their profits.
- nivenkos 5y agoThe First hand contract inequality is terrible though. Just ban landlordism directly and let people buy their residences.
- bjourne 5y agoThe probability of an average person being able to afford to live in a home in a "nice area" is much higher in Sweden and other countries with rent control than in countries without. There is no shortage of homes, there is a shortage of homes that people can afford.
- sokoloff 5y agoWhat of people who can’t or don’t want to afford to buy and maintain a property? Several times in my life I benefited from renting a room, apartment, or house (in college, just after college, after a breakup/move out, moving to a new city with an unstable job). It would have been a massive financial burden and personal inconvenience if I had to buy/sell every one of those times.
- endisneigh 5y agoWhere would you live if you cannot afford to buy? I swear some of the policies people on here come up with are so poorly thought out.
- cuteboy19 5y agoDamn all the people who live in a city temporarily then? College students, temp workers etc