New publication: Seeing the glass half full amid Japan’s vacant housing crisis
Julia Olsson has published an article in East Asia Forum on how Japan has been tackling its vacant housing problem through policy reforms and awareness campaigns, offering lessons for policymakers worldwide. Japan’s problem of vacant homes has drawn global media attention, but the situation may not be as dire as once predicted. While a 2015 report estimated a vacancy rate of 20.1 per cent by 2023,
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-seeing-glass-half-full-amid-japans-vacant-housing-crisis - 2025-11-13
