All these cities still have a housing market albeit a more regulated one than your average American city. Housing is still developed and owned by private intere

All these cities still have a housing market albeit a more regulated one than your average American city. Housing is still developed and owned by private interest and responds to supply and demand. We could debate the policies of these specific cities (for example, the trade-offs of Berlin's rent control: https://archive.ph/l3i2w https://archive.ph/l3i2w) but that's beyond the point. The parent's position is "housing shouldn't be a market", and I am showing an example of what soviet-style state control over housing looks like in practice.