Some Aspects of A Mixed Housing Market

During the last decades extensive price- and rent-regulating measures have been in operation on the Swedish housing market. Today the Rent Control Act of 1942 covers, broadly speaking, almost all rented flats in multi-family houses owned by private landlords and small housing co-operatives in the towns and other large urban areas. Privately financed one-family houses are exempt from rent control, irrespective of their geographical situation. Other categories exempt are flats in multi-family houses in rural and small urban districts, and all of the increasing number of dwelling-units in municipally owned, non-profit social housing corporations. The large cooperatives operating on a nation-wide scale are classified for the purposes of rent control with the non-profit corporations.