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Re:Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich by paddim8 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:03PM (#38155051)
The social democrats built 1 million units of housing in Sweden in the 60s or something like that, because of a housing crisis. They solved the housing crisis just like that.
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Re:Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich by oceanofsolaris on Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:11PM (#38155138)
If a lack of capital investment (or skilled companies) is the problem, that’s a great solution.

But that’s not the reason for expensive rents in big cities.

It’s because many (rich) people want to live there … and due to physical and regulatory limits you can’t build more housing, even for piles of money it would be worth.

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