Japan has so many empty homes it's giving them away
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In Japan, there are too many homes and not enough people to live in them.
This housing glut – known as akiya – has led to homes being given away in some cases. In 2008, there were 7.5 million empty homes in Japan. By 2013, it had reached 8.2 million. That number includes all empty dwellings – rooms
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- In Japan, there are too many homes and not enough people to live in them. This housing glut – known as akiya – has led to homes being given away in some cases.
- In 2008, there were 7.5 million empty homes in Japan. By 2013, it had reached 8.2 million. That number includes all empty dwellings – rooms to let, flats, and not just houses, of which there are believed to be around 2.2 million currently standing empty.
- If Japan is to avoid catastrophic population declines, it may have to consider allowing more migrants to settle permanently.
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