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Dutch Student Housing Shortage Exceeds 20,000 Rooms Ahead of New Academic Year

The Netherlands faces a verified shortage of more than twenty thousand student rooms, while municipal restrictions and electricity-grid constraints are delaying construction and could contribute to a loss of forty-five thousand student accommodations by 2027, putting additional pressure on universities in Amsterdam, Delft and Rotterdam.
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