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Empty stores and offices: how Sweden aims to plug housing gap
Sweden may have too many shops and offices after the pandemic. It doesn't have enough homes. It spies an opportunity. A seismic shift towards online shopping and working from home has been painful for many businesses, but has given the Nordic nation the chance to address an intractable social and economic ill: a chronic housing shortage. The government is now examining whether empty commercial real estate in the wake of COVID-19 could be converted to help plug a shortfall of around 140,000 homes. The plans are one example of how countries are looking ahead to rebuild, in a new reality spawned by a pandemic that has ... (full story)