Now the Norwegians are cautiously positive about more market-based rents, while at the same time scrapping the idea of reintroducing investment support for the new construction of rental properties.
Value rent is vital for the Swedes. Few have such incomes in Sweden that they can afford market rents.
Market rents will lead to an increasingly segregated inner city.
But is it really possible to move out to the suburbs? The residents of the suburbs will hardly be able to afford to move to an inner city with market rents, will they?
No, demand will also increase for apartments in the suburbs and the rents there will also rise.
So inner city people will move to the suburbs and suburbanites will move to what? Homelessness?
No, reintroduce a red housing policy worthy of the name! Increase the investment support, so that it is possible to build rental properties that low and middle income earners can afford to live in. And if the private companies cannot manage to build rental properties that people can afford to live in, then the public sector may take over the construction.
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To deny people the right to housing is to deny them one of the most basic things in their lives. Ashamed!