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Don't tear it down just yet. Housing prices are rising there fast now as well, attracting a new group of people that might invest in it to make it more liveable

• jacquesm 9y ago
  > Don't tear it down just yet. Most of what was torn down will (hopefully) stay torn down, and what remains standing will probably remain a while longer. > Housing prices are rising there fast now as well That's because of an extensive renovation plan that took over two decades to take root. The bigger driving factor is that Amsterdam housing prices have risen to the point that they made the Bijlmer look viable again. I've had quite a bit of family and friends living in the Bijlmer, the whole place has a super turbulent history and it has been a very expensive and real life study in how large scale plans can go off the rails. Something similar but on a much smaller scale happened in Amsterdam Noord (Plan van Gool).