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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by nerfhammer on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:58PM (#15706683)
Strangling the growth of cities and labor mobility is very much a rational economic problem:

* https://www.axios.com/sky-high-home-prices-are-thwarting-thw...

* https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/the-other-side-of-har...

Cf. China, which has seen unbelievably explosive growth in its cities in the last 40 years and China has also seen ~1 billion people lifted out of poverty during exactly the same time period.

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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @03:19PM (#15707370)
Sure. This is inspite of the hukou system, which is basically a kind of apartheid that keeps rural migrants from receiving services in the urban locales they are working at.
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