"The shortage of housing in big cities can cause severe consequences. Only government action can solve this problem.   To what extent do you agree or disagree?"

With urbanisation, the population in

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is growing fast and so is the housing crisis, which brings along many other problems. Some argue that only

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is the appropriate authority to deal with

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rising problem. I strongly agree with

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argument as governments can solve

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growing issue by various steps,

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as restricting new landed residential housing by encouraging vertical apartment buildings and gradually expanding

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and foremost, the

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is the right party to resolve

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housing crisis issue by discouraging the building of new landed houses and encouraging vertical multi-storey apartment living with proper planning and infrastructure to deal with

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space crunch.

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, Singapore and Hong Kong are

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on islands and they have proven to solve

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crisis for their citizens by vertically building thousands of high-floor flats. These

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have proved to incorporate the best infrastructure for their ever-growing population by building multi-story apartments rather than new houses, which has resulted in economically affordable housing for their citizens in big

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.

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, to help the situation, the

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can extend highways to help commuters access the

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in a country easily.

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high level of planning can only be done by the

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to help solve accommodation shortages for their citizenry.

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, the

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can help

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situation by expanding

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and creating more residential properties on the outskirts of

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. In Noida,

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, a fast-growing city in India, the housing development board has continuously helped accommodate the growing population by building more residential properties on the outskirts of the city which eventually became part of it and built metros and highways for commuters to make it easily accessible.

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,

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helped in controlling growing cramping and accommodation problems for their locals. In conclusion, it is clear that the

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has a big role to play as an ultimate authority by taking appropriate measures to create highly planned inner-by city development and well-designed infrastructure to accommodate the growing needs of their citizens.