‘Luxury takes time. We don’t have time’: The former top military officer on a mission to fix the Dutch housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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It's interesting to perspectives from elsewhere. The Netherlands is also facing a housing crisis, and they're also talking about significant increases in construction. Part of that will be to limit local control.

Interestingly, they're also talking about changing the type of construction: fewer rooms.

There isn't quite enough context to explain why that would help, but it's something I haven't really heard politicians saying here in Canada.

What changes would you make to speed up housing growth here?

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I find it's a phase of life thing. My partner and I used to live in a 700ish square foot, single bedroom apartment. We loved that thing. With kids, that would be really hard. But I expect we'll go back to something similar after our kids are established.

[-] healthetank@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

For sure- I think house size does need to scale with family size. But no family is big enough these days for a 3k sqft house, especially not a typical nuclear 4 person one. 12 or 1500 is sufficient for most 4 person families while still maintaining standards theyre used to, though obviously layout can make a big difference.