The housing shortage can be solved 'a significant part' by making better use of the housing stock instead of simply building more. That is what economists Piet Eichholtz, Linde Kattenberg and Nils Kok argue.

All kinds of government measures make it unattractive to live together or to rent out part of the house, argue the trio associated with Maastricht University. These barriers must be removed in order to give the market more room to breathe in the short term. The slogan 'build, build, build' only works in the long term, as there are usually ten years between the first plans and the actual construction.

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