With 68%, rents would likely increase in Stockholm if market rents were introduced. No wonder the workers' parties and unions resisted such proposals for so long. Many would have to leave their homes or live in substandard conditions with a free rental allowance. Nevertheless, LO's economic policy investigator suggests exactly this.
He sees no other solution than getting housing construction started to enable the workforce to move to the growth regions.
Without sufficient public subsidies for the construction of quality rental properties that people can afford to live in, he is surely right. So we must return to the old Swedish way of public subsidies to stimulate the construction of tenements, which the citizens began to abolish in 1991.
If private landlords do not find the rental market interesting enough, then we manage with public landlords. It is not only capitalists who can build tenements.
Then it's purely stupid nationally with market rents. Such a large part of ordinary people's purchasing power would go to rent, that the consumption of other goods and services would be radically reduced.
Source: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/lo-tar-stallning-till-marknadshyror/