And here we go again with the "Europe is FULL!" meme. Sweden is not full, Finland is not full, and Britain – the fullest of all "full" countries – is definitely not full. Some urban areas with cheap housing are jam-packed with people, but at the same time there are hundreds of thousands of homes sitting cold and empty awaiting more lucrative times.
Nobody wants to live in the countryside. People want to live with others like themselves and will move to the cities to find those people as soon as they can. There is also not enough jobs or prospects to be had in the countryside. There's no social services in the countryside. The only way to keep immigrants there is to assign them a house and somehow forbid them from leaving or they'd move away, just like any sane person would. The Swedish countryside is dying and it is not simply because of a lack of people but because of how the economy work
But God forbid that the fat cats would be forced to rent their empty apartments to immigrants at lower prices – that would be the worst possible human rights violation!
This will never happen in today's political situation (this is a government which won't even legislate a proportional-to-population-and-wealth immigrant distribution of all Swedish communes, which would mean richer communes would be forced to accept more new arrivals and ease the overburdening strain on the often poorer communes that now take in the bulk of the refugees). Instead we would see stuff like what the right-wing coalition did - make it lucrative for capitalists to stack immigrants in "temporary" (but there's nowhere to move from there, so it won't be temporary), substandard housings, keeping people living in less area/person than we allow our cattle to live in, all while the "proprietors" rake home huge winnings in government grants.
And once again - you either have to kick out the citizen's already living in those apartments or end up in places where there's a reason people aren't already living. But I guess Sweden's slumlords (which social services organisations have even admitted is the only places left to place people) and other people who prey on the weak would be overjoyed at this prospect.
Well, the 'everything is a construct' thing is a nice idea, but it has approximately zero practical value. What do you suggest, randomly assigning refugees to homeowners, forcing the latter to give shelter to the former? That's just asking for all sorts of trouble.
I'm rather more of a fan of increasing the construction of cheap housing in the outskirts of big cities, with proper public transportation, some parks, some shops, schools... When this crisis is over they could be used to drive down housing prises without direct intervention in the market.
Huzzah! You have created a ghetto. Have fun with the violently angry, disillusioned second-generation-immigrant youth that will form the recruitment base for your organised crime in the next 20+ years. The only direction it will drive housing prices in other locations is up as everybody with sense desperately attempts to move out of there, and only the downtrodden, the broken, and those with no hope or belief in the future left remain behind.