Opinion of rent control

[Gustaf]

We have it in Stockholm and it's obviously horrible. Like a lot of privileged people I am of course benefitting personally - I'm paying half of what my immigrant friends are paying for a better place to live. As would be expected the average person living in a rent control flat in the city is a high-income earner (this has been confirmed every time it is studied). For whatever mystic reason this is rarely reported by the city journalists nor mentioned by the city politicians. Instead, whenever rent control is criticized news teams dig out some random impoverished old lady who doesn't want to leave her apartment.

Rent control essentially amounts to the state taxing everyone to set up a lottery where the lottery is rigged so that those with power and money have a significantly higher chance of winning. Why leftwingers support it I really don't know.