One of the major problems that faces today’s governments is creating enough satisfactory housing for their increasing populations whilst still trying to protect the environment. Discuss this statement and give your opinion.

One of the widely discussed issues nowadays is that
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faces is creating enough satisfactory housing for their increasing populations whilst still trying to protect the environment.
However
, there
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still problems
to keep
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up with both necessities at the same time. A commonly held belief in society is that
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always should provide housing to their people no matter what,
although
there is no way to deny that today the population is rising twice as fast
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before, which means
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has to consider housing even more
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than ever. As
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evidence, we can see a number of
constructions
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companies building apartment
houses
and any type of living worth
houses
for the community.
Furthermore
, most of the
houses
are being built as satisfactory
houses
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amount of opportunities for living than typical
houses
, taking more space to construct, even though it has disadvantages for the environment, which clearly leads to environmental damages in the future. So,
on the other
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those environmental questions are becoming extremely observed and discussed by
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society. One clear example is the detriments of
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nature, especially trees and forest areas to build
houses
for people. In fact, not only housing is the main issue, there are more factories,
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appearing in most parts of the cities than
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years. Of course,
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considering
this
issue too and searching for an answer, but
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minimal ideas
as a result
. In conclusion, taking everything mentioned into account I would say that
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has
less
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opportunities to keep
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housing production and
environment
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clearance together.
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