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Idle tower cranes over half-finished apartment blocks on the edge of a Luxembourg suburb at dusk.
Housing Policy

'Perma-crisis': IDEA says Luxembourg's housing shortage is no longer a crisis but the new normal

Fondation IDEA, the think-tank created by Luxembourg's Chamber of Commerce, argues the housing shortage should no longer be called a "crisis." In Décryptage No. 54, economist Michel-Edouard Ruben calls it a "perma-crisis" — an "established disorder" of scarce supply and high prices. IDEA has pressed four structural fixes as completions lag the government's 6,000-homes-a-year target.

By Mathias Faber

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