Rough numbers: Since the active government policy of good, affordable housing for all ended around 1991, the cost of living in owner-occupied housing has increased by 41% and for those living in rental housing by 120%. Fortunately, the development is going in the right direction. Have also read that you could build 100 cheap,…
Month: November 2013
The principle of publicity threatened
It will be significantly easier for politicians and authorities to classify documents in Sweden as confidential. Already now, the government has classified ministers' share trading so that the minister could not be scrutinized after a suspicion that everything did not go right. The principle of openness has been the basis for the people and journalists to be able to scrutinize the exercise of power by politicians and authorities. Now…