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The First hand contract inequality is terrible though. Just ban landlordism directly and let people buy their residences.

• bjourne 4y ago
  The 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.
  • nivenkos 4y ago
    Hardly anyone can get rent control apartments though. The system has failed.
    • bjourne 4y ago
      Not true. There are over a million rent-controlled apartments in Sweden.
      • ryan93 4y ago
        How many people want those million homes though?
        • bjourne 4y ago
          Millions of people live in those homes. That there are more people than apartments available in the most desirable areas is not a system failure.
• sokoloff 4y ago
  What 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 4y ago
  Where 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 4y ago
  Damn all the people who live in a city temporarily then? College students, temp workers etc