What of people who can’t or don’t want to afford to buy and maintain a property? Several times in my life I benefited from renting a room, apartment, or house (in college, just after college, after a breakup/move out, moving to a new city with an unstable job).

It would have been a massive financial burden and personal inconvenience if I had to buy/sell every one of those times.

Where would you live if you cannot afford to buy?

I swear some of the policies people on here come up with are so poorly thought out.

The probability of an average person being able to afford to live in a home in a "nice area" is much higher in Sweden and other countries with rent control than in countries without. There is no shortage of homes, there is a shortage of homes that people can afford.

Hardly anyone can get rent control apartments though. The system has failed.

How many people want those million homes though?

Millions of people live in those homes. That there are more people than apartments available in the most desirable areas is not a system failure.

Damn all the people who live in a city temporarily then? College students, temp workers etc