@existentialbro The "housing crisis" in Sweden is btw due to centralisation in larger cities (I live in one of those) draining the villages not along Sweden's coastline. Actually - fun fact - the villages have thanks to newcomers often gained economically and socially thanks to all these new people coming to Sweden.

Outside of the large cities there are so many empty houses, abandoned schools etc. etc. and also people out of work (majority of jobs are in the larger cities, draining the landsbygd) that newcomers can be easily facilitated and taken care of.

While it may cost an initial amount of government funding this means that villages can survive much better - and the social and economical benefits through that I would argue is worth a lot. State and municipal funding in Sweden is very common anyway, so no big new investment there - it's possible this could just be regarded as moving expenses from unemployment support to paying salary!