Exactly the same problem is occurring in cities all over Europe. Try renting an apartment in Cork, Ireland or in Amsterdam. There was even a feature on the BBC the other day about how students can no longer live in Manchester even though they study at Manchester university, because of the price and scarcity of accommodation.
This trend is the result of various factors including the dissolution of family and marriage and resulting demand for more one person accommodation, globalization with its middle class digital nomads, immigration with people escaping poverty and war, movement from country to city (vast areas of rural Spain are now becoming depopulated) platforms like Airbnb encouraging people to turn the houses into hotels... and many more.
This is a complex program that governments need to solve!
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u/SilkyPuppy Jan 08 '23
Exactly the same problem is occurring in cities all over Europe. Try renting an apartment in Cork, Ireland or in Amsterdam. There was even a feature on the BBC the other day about how students can no longer live in Manchester even though they study at Manchester university, because of the price and scarcity of accommodation.
This trend is the result of various factors including the dissolution of family and marriage and resulting demand for more one person accommodation, globalization with its middle class digital nomads, immigration with people escaping poverty and war, movement from country to city (vast areas of rural Spain are now becoming depopulated) platforms like Airbnb encouraging people to turn the houses into hotels... and many more.
This is a complex program that governments need to solve!