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Re:Rent control isn’t working in Sweden by bjoli on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:28AM (#28316163)
If the last 20 years has taught us anything it is that it is not that simple. The price increase of new built houses and apartments has been record breaking, yet we don't build more houses than we did 20 years ago

And the houses that get built are lower quality.

Re:Rent control isn’t working in Sweden by thinkharderdev on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:41AM (#28316353)
We seem to have settled on the worst possible equilibrium in a lot places where housing prices are market rate but also we have a huge tangled thicket of regulatory processes which severely limit the amount of new housing we can build.