Edit: wow, flagged for quoting the end of the post. Flagged for quoting or flagged because someone disagreed? tl;dr: rent control bad. > The status of the hou

Edit: wow, flagged for quoting the end of the post. Flagged for quoting or flagged because someone disagreed? tl;dr: rent control bad. > The status of the housing market today is that: - 93% of swedes live in municipalities with a housing shortage, - the share of rental apartments is on a continuous decline (in Stockholm it went from 54% to 36% in the last 30 years), - there are long waiting times for first-hand contracts, - there is a substantial black market and - compared to the condominium market, the rental market is more segregated.