Why rent control isn't working in Sweden? In a red-brick 1960s tower block, 20-year-old Oscar Stark is heating leftover vegetarian pasta. He keeps to a strict food budget, because more than half his income goes towards sub-letting a studio apartment in one of Stockholm's outer suburbs.

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Stockholm is the most expensive city in Sweden. It is followed by Gothenburg and Uppsala. Cities such as Nykvarn and Södertälje are much cheaper. But hay let's move to a rich area and complain about high rent.