New research reveals that, in 2023, the Netherlands is short approximately 390.000 homes - a sharp increase compared to last year’s figure of 315.000.
  • cartmancarter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So is the largest contributor to the problem just lack of land? Seems like most of the other problems from the article can be solved with money, but a lack of land makes it hard to build anything

    • jochem@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I once calculated that if we reduce the land use for livestock by 50% and then use 10% of the newly freed land to build housing (the other 40% can become nature), we can build a city something like 1.5x times the size of Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands.

      It’s not a lack of land. It’s how the land is being used. Almost half is for livestock (or more accurate: to dump the shit of that livestock, as the majority of the animals is kept indoors).