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Difficult to build housing. For example, Greenland housing shortage is severe:

>> These staff residences are important for attracting employees, as the waiting time for a municipal rental property in Nuuk is between 10-12 years for a private individual.

https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/housing-greenland

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Why is it difficult to build housing there? There's a housing crisis in most Tier 1 European cities.

at least Europe can produce its own lumber, it will be some time yet before sustainable forestry takes off in Antarctica (knock on wood ;)

edit: my bad. didn't realize you were asking about greenland, I don't want to act like "no trees" is the cause of their housing crisis, I have no idea

There is practically no lumber to harvest.[0]

[0]https://ign.ku.dk/english/about/arboreta/arboretum-greenland...

Qinngua Valley, the only forest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinngua_Valley

Lumber is imported. Mostly from Denmark, if I'm reading this chart correctly:

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/GRL/Yea...

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