Luxembourg ranks among the countries with the largest average dwelling sizes in Europe - with strong population growth and high land prices at the same time. Why densification here often fails due to political, planning and cultural limits and why the image of "building too densely" calls for a sober reassessment.
Last December's Politmonitor confirms the obvious: Affordable housing remains the biggest concern for many Luxembourgers. 70 per cent cite access to housing as an urgent issue. So shouldn't Luxembourg be building much more densely?
Antoine Decoville is in no doubt about this. "Luxembourg is one of the countries with the largest dwellings in Europe, with almost 140 m² per dwelling in 2023; in a country that, paradoxically, has seen the strongest relative population growth in Europe over the last 15 years. And we have a country where land values (building land prices, ed.) are also extremely high. The combination of these different parameters is not sustainable in the long term." It is important to rationalise land use and limit sealing, says the researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) on Belval.
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