There is a major housing shortage in Sweden. It is not the first time. Between the first and the second world war was also a major housing shortage and overcrowding. During the 1940s, established the public housing companies in most of our municipalities. These began to build the apartment building and the construction was financed by the state lent money with good interest rates.
the housing would be non-profit making. In 1965 hammer to the riksdag, a decision about one million apartments would be built in nine years. It was the world’s largest construction in terms of number of inhabitants. The result of this was that in the mid-1970s, was the housing crisis away.
What can we learn from these historical events? Well, that the state/government in the past has been active in ensuring that the built housing on the basis of what is needed and that the homes then owned by the municipalities and would operate without a profit.
based, and that other company so they look not on what is needed but on what it is possible to make the most money on. That is why the construction companies of the condominiums for sale. This excludes the poorest in society from the possibility to live in these newly built houses. The construction companies and the property owners also have an interest in the housing problems are left because it is easier to sell the apartments.
the housing shortage is being built away with the assistance of the local public housing corporations and non-profit. A dwelling, a home, should be a right.
