
We Once Had the Answers
Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?
Petter Nilsson is a member of the Center for Marxist Social Studies and works for the Left Party in Stockholm.
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