Monthly Archives: October 2025

Sweden’s Housing Shortage: Lessons on Rent Control and Planning

In 2016, Sweden’s National Housing, Building and Planning report made headlines with a sobering statistic: more than 255 out of 290 municipalities reported a housing shortage. Despite record levels of construction at the time, demand still far outstripped supply—especially in metropolitan areas like Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. So why, even during a period of high […]