Fjordheim
Proposals
Housing Supply and Tenant Protection …

Legislative Bill · Fjordheim

Housing Supply and Tenant Protection Act of 2024

Proposed by ASTER · fronted by Johan Engström

Opened

6 Jun 2024

Voting closes

5 Aug 2024

Chambers

1 legislature

Articles

2 changes

Rationale

Fjordheim needs more homes, not more delay. This bill lets construction override local roadblocks so building keeps pace with demand, while capping rent increases at inflation, so working families are not priced out by the growth we are building together.

Proposed Changes

	Law	Previous		Proposed
1	Housing Supply & Planning	Strong national housing targets		Override local objections, build at scale
2	Rent Control	Light stabilisation, mostly market rents		Rent increases capped to inflation

1

Housing Supply & Planning

Previous law

Strong national housing targets

Override local objections, build at scale

2

Rent Control

Previous law

Light stabilisation, mostly market rents

Rent increases capped to inflation

Proposer

Party

ASTER

ASTER believes no person's dignity should be bargained away. In Fjordheim, we choose dialogue over division, solidarity over isolation, and the stubborn hope that different people can share one future.

Core pillars

Johan Engström

Activist · Age 45

36,093 social followers

Once a union organizer in the shipyards, Johan Engström’s thunderous speeches could still rally a crowd—or derail a career, thanks to his habit of saying exactly what he thought, even when it endangered his own ambitions.

🎭 Eccentric 🎤 Fantastic Speaker 🌟 Idealist 🏙️ Street Smart 🔨 Working Class Background

Timeline

Draft

6 June 2024
Vote Open

6 June 2024
Vote Closed

5 August 2024
Became Law

5 August 2024

Vote tally

Live tally across each chamber. Weighted by seats held.

Nordting

Passed

20Yes 5No 30Abstained 0Not voted 35 seats

For: 20 / 35 seats (57.1%)

Against: 5 · Abstained: 30 · Not voted: 0

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 80.0%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
A Better Fjordheim	11	Abstain	ABF supports the bill’s major expansion of housing supply but opposes tighter rent controls. Because the proposal combines a necessary supply reform with greater market intervention, we cannot support the package as written.
ASTER Proposer	20	Yes	No reason given
Democratic Liberal Platform	5	No	Rent controls have been proven not to work and make matters worse. We are hence against this bill.
Libertarian Alliance	19	Abstain	We support removing planning barriers and allowing the housing supply to respond to demand. However, rent controls interfere with voluntary contracts, discourage investment and risk reducing rental supply. Because this bill combines necessary deregulation with harmful price controls, we cannot support it in its current form for which we abstain.

Voting record

Every vote must state a public reason. Most recent first.

A Better Fjordheim

Voted June 18, 2024

Abstain

“ABF supports the bill’s major expansion of housing supply but opposes tighter rent controls. Because the proposal combines a necessary supply reform with greater market intervention, we cannot support the package as written.”

Democratic Liberal Platform

Voted June 17, 2024

“Rent controls have been proven not to work and make matters worse. We are hence against this bill.”

Libertarian Alliance

Voted June 17, 2024

Abstain

“We support removing planning barriers and allowing the housing supply to respond to demand. However, rent controls interfere with voluntary contracts, discourage investment and risk reducing rental supply. Because this bill combines necessary deregulation with harmful price controls, we cannot support it in its current form for which we abstain.”