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The many recent examples of mucipalities and states passing regulatory policies to improve rent under capitalism are the primary one I'm using here. People are doing things to address housing,
I'm not, no - nor stalinkas (not that those were all that prolific comparably though). It's a limited measurement, obviously USSR social housing policies do not compare to the US, but the initial suggestion was specifically about rapidly-constructed slab concrete buildings and nothing typifies that better than a Khrushchevka. If you have a better source I'd love to see it, I approximated that off the average apartment size of 46m and the total constructed of 2,900,000,000 sq m, which is the best approximation I could get from the wikipedia sources and I may well be missing some reports.
Can you tell me generally big examples of places where this has happened and things have gotten better? As a European, the only cases I know of are the Berlin referenda for rent caps and expropriation, and both have had no lasting effect because higher courts have sabotaged them and declared them illegal (I don't understand how a referendum can be illegal).
Are you sure this is flat-area and doesn't need to get multiplied by number of flats per building?
That's a really specific request, but sure: Vancouver empty home tax, California Tenant Rent Cap.
As far as I can tell this number is accurate, again if you can find a better (or more clear) source than what's given on wikipedia I welcome it since this is a composite number pulled from housing reports originally written in a language in which I am functionally illiterate (and can only barely speak) (so I'm relying heavily on the translations since I cannot go and find the primary sources)