Now urban planners in Germany’s financial hub are offering a solution: the homie. Pop-up housing won’t solve Europe’s migrant-housing problem, nor is it meant to serve as long-term accommodation, because people are meant to stay there a while and then move on. But some urban planners say it can help ease the crunch in affordable city housing and deal with fluctuating refugee numbers, like the abrupt influx in 2015. The new arrivals from the Middle East, Africa and Asia often end up in metropolitan areas, complicating urban planners’ struggle to balance growth and quality of life. Other cities in Germany and Europe are also using pop-up housing to deal with an influx of migrants.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2017 02:03 UTC