The debate about excessive rents has been going on in circles for a good decade. Politicians of almost every stripe worry that the situation is on the rise Housing market The “big social question of our time” is that we really have to act. Nevertheless, rents have recently risen faster every year than general inflation, by five to ten percent in metropolitan areas, and in some cases at a similar rate in rural regions. It is usually said that there are no easy and certainly no quick solutions to this crisis. But there may be a solution that achieves the goal more quickly than the current housing policy.