>>30069970
The countryside has been draining into the big cities for a while, Helsinki being the capital with most of the company HQs and bigger paying jobs received the most pressure in the housing market and the prices shot way up. The housing gibsmedats essentially introducing a rent floor doesn't help at all, there's no reason to try and undercut the market since the demand is so massive and every tenant will be able to pay at least a certain minimum sum, and there's very little political willpower to try and fix it because both ends of the political spectrum are growing fat off the infinite money cheat codes. Even worse is the city's attempt at more available housing by building new construction with a limited maximum purchase price, those ended up being largely scooped up by investors as well and rented out on market prices for even more free money, at least that system is being axed in 2023 for being irredeemable dogshit.
The rest of Finland isn't as bad, the popular areas in big cities can be bad, but still not nearly as bad as Helsinki and being willing to move out a bit farther drops prices to very reasonable levels.