Therefore, it is a housing shortage and so it can be solved

Why do young people find it so difficult to enter the housing market?

- In the growth regions there are double locks in the housing market that exclude them: They are too young to have been able to save money together for an owned home. Nor have they been able to get enough queue time to get an older, cheaper rental right and new production is often almost twice as expensive to rent. Partly because of high construction costs and land prices.

- The housing sector today consists of a large number of markets, located in different places, where demand differs between different types of housing - villas, tenancies and tenancies. Then it is not possible to implement a policy that assumes that the same type of rental right should be attractive to everyone. Especially when it has often become so expensive that it is hardly attractive to anyone. That's why you got stuck.

What have you done wrong?

- I call it "the myth of the general housing policy", they try to continue a policy that died from the 1970s onwards when the middle class first started moving to villas and later to tenancies. Today, 60 percent of Swedes live in housing they own. Another 25 percent live in old rental apartments with relatively low rents, contracts that the unwary release.

- Thus, the housing issue has solved for 85-90 percent of the population, they are satisfied with how they are doing and are not moving. The rest, many of them young, have no realistic alternatives to obtain housing in the places where there are also jobs and development opportunities.

How do you think the housing shortage can be solved?

- Deductible housing savings for young people is a way that has been tried in Norway, that the tax is lowered on income that is set off to buy housing. Affordable starter loans another. In addition, I think that what is internationally called "social housing" should be introduced.

- This is about rental rights with lower rents where the tenant must fulfill certain requirements in order to be able to get a contract. Everyone should not be able to live there, only people who have lived in the village for a certain time and who do not have high incomes. It is also important that these rents will never ever be converted into tenant-owned apartments.