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The Netherlands’ Almere leads the way on self-build communities

By 2011-06-06T08:34:00

I Build Canal Houses

Source: Martijn Steiner Lovisa, Gerard van Hees

As the UK government promotes self-build as localism’s answer to the housing crisis, this Dutch town is conducting the biggest low-cost self-build experiment in Europe.

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