The Sweden story sounds so much like the SF story.
Area doesn’t building housing, leading to a massive increase in house prices and a destruction of class mobility as the rich get richer (as their houses get more valuable) and the poor get poorer (as they pay more to rent the same living space).
The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes.
And finally, instead of solving the fundamental expensive housing problem, opportunists will blame the other. More often than not the other are the victims of the problems. Immigrants in Sweden’s case, and since one can’t blame immigrants for obvious reasons in SF, homeless people in SF.
Area doesn’t building housing, leading to a massive increase in house prices and a destruction of class mobility as the rich get richer (as their houses get more valuable) and the poor get poorer (as they pay more to rent the same living space).
The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes.
And finally, instead of solving the fundamental expensive housing problem, opportunists will blame the other. More often than not the other are the victims of the problems. Immigrants in Sweden’s case, and since one can’t blame immigrants for obvious reasons in SF, homeless people in SF.