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Can you give an example of govt intervention reducing housing prices so that it is affordable for all residents?[/quote]

Huh? It's common in many other countries to have a social-housing program. In fact, even the US used to have a social-housing program for white people, but that came to an end with the prospect of having to extend it to black people, which apparently was an insupportable idea.[/quote]

Stockholm has an awesome program just like you're describing, [b]of course the wait time to get an apartment is 15 years.[/b] [/quote]

Citation please.[/quote]

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160517-this-is-one-city-where-youll-never-find-a-home

https://qz.com/264418/why-its-nearly-impossible-to-rent-an-apartment-in-stockholm/[/quote]

Did you miss this part?

"Due to Stockholm’s infamously strict housing market,"

In other words, Stockholm also has a housing shortage.[/quote]

when price is not a factor, that is what happens. [/quote]

Wait, what? Affordable housing prices cause housing shortages? How does that work, exactly?[/quote]

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