The Netherlands could create as many as 120.000 additional homes by 2030 by simply renovating the existing stock of housing, a new report has suggested.
IEB calls on government to renovate buildings to create more homes
A new study by the Economic Institute for Construction (IEB) has estimated that the Netherlands could utilise a relatively untapped resource and renovate existing buildings to help ease the tense situation on the housing market.
According to the report, existing buildings could either be split (when a larger home is divided into several small ones), topped up (when an extra floor is added to an existing building) or…