Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
>Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.<p>I wonder what metric they use for "not working".<p>It's not like a <i>lack</i> of rent control is creating vast new supplies of housing here in London and as far as Im aware the <i>fastest</i> period of homebuilding in NYC was in the 50-60s when rent control was at its strictest (<a href="https://cbcny.org/sites/default/files/media/image-caption/Housing%20Production%20Tables%20and%20Figures-01_2.png" rel="nofollow">https://cbcny.org/sites/default/files/media/image-caption/Ho...</a> ).