'Rent Control' and 'State Housing' are completely different subjects.
Quebec and Ontario have province-wide forms of rent control (i.e. max rent increases etc.) and it works well enough.
'State Housing' is for poor people only.
State Allocated Housing for 'regular citizens' is probably a bad idea, you end up in a Soviet Style situation with valuable things allocated based on power or other infidelities, long waiting lists, lack of maintenance etc..
Also, 'housing' doesn't mean everyone gets to live posh. If you're 27 and are not earning a whole lot, well, what can you expect really? You get a flat in possibly a not so nice building, that's it.
I don't get why people would expect the state to provide for them in the 'poshest' part of Sweden. I wonder if we looked at prices in the more marginal areas, what those would be and if they are more affordable.
Quebec and Ontario have province-wide forms of rent control (i.e. max rent increases etc.) and it works well enough.
'State Housing' is for poor people only.
State Allocated Housing for 'regular citizens' is probably a bad idea, you end up in a Soviet Style situation with valuable things allocated based on power or other infidelities, long waiting lists, lack of maintenance etc..
Also, 'housing' doesn't mean everyone gets to live posh. If you're 27 and are not earning a whole lot, well, what can you expect really? You get a flat in possibly a not so nice building, that's it.
I don't get why people would expect the state to provide for them in the 'poshest' part of Sweden. I wonder if we looked at prices in the more marginal areas, what those would be and if they are more affordable.