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Europe's rural housing problems. (The Euro-Files).
Mark Shucksmith, Nick Gallent, and I have recently completed a study on rural housing pressure and policies in Western Europe. Originally intended as a review of different states' approaches to dealing with the consequences of housing pressure and the need for affordable housing, the project became a major ten-country study and has now formed the basis of an edited collection due out in December under the title Housing in the European Countryside.
The study suggests that there is very little general agreement on what constitutes housing pressure or a clear problem requiring some form of redress at a European scale. To some, inmigration is a threat to the stability of rural communities; to others it is an opportunity or lifeline to be grasped. Conversely, out-migration is viewed in some areas and regions as part of the natural ebb and flow of people affecting all of Europe; elsewhere, it represents damaging change that must be stemmed at all costs.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Europe's rural housing problems. (The Euro-Files).
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