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by amelius 1761 days ago
> Anything that significantly lowers the value of real estate will be political suicide.

What percentage of the population owns the house they live in (or has a mortgage)?

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   39,8 % Single-family home
   20,7 % Co-op apartment
   = 60,5%

   28,4 % Rental apartment
Maybe more relevant is that because of this Sweden has very high household debt.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm

That’s not how our modern democracies tend to work.

Rather, voters choose between one option, thinly veiled as two chooses, set by monied interests and corralled by media barons.