the fact that most of the rent goes to pure landlord profit becomes obvious with municipal housing here in sweden, where we basically only pay for maintenance.
suddenly the rent is so cheap that the americans i’ve told it to just wanted to cry, 400€/month for a small apartment that’s plenty big enough for a single person, and full on family apartments can be had for as low as 600€/month if you look around for a while.
The reason we don’t have federally funded municipal housing in the US is that the Clinton Administration capped the number of units the federal government is allowed to fund
the fact that most of the rent goes to pure landlord profit becomes obvious with municipal housing here in sweden, where we basically only pay for maintenance.
suddenly the rent is so cheap that the americans i’ve told it to just wanted to cry, 400€/month for a small apartment that’s plenty big enough for a single person, and full on family apartments can be had for as low as 600€/month if you look around for a while.
The reason we don’t have federally funded municipal housing in the US is that the Clinton Administration capped the number of units the federal government is allowed to fund