It is my understanding that they didn't in fact "Just build more" so how would they know it was or wasn't working?

They did build more they just didn't build that.

What did they build more of then?

They built at least one house. That's more housing.

So they did not in fact build more, by any definition that a reasonable person would use.

	▲	undersuit 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OK so the "at least one" is a Binface campaign promise, used as a joke here. I'm going to leave it up to you to figure out if the Netherlands builds more than 1 additional housing unit every year.

cyberax 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They did. The Netherlands added more than 1 million new units between 2012 (8,425,398 units) and 2025 (9,486,933 units). Source: https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/en/dataset/81955ENG/table

During that time, the population grew from 16785299 to 17722333.

So they literally built MORE houses than the increase in population! Yet it's somehow a "housing crisis".

	▲	brailsafe 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like relying so much on supply is a farce if the supply is always able to be bought up by people who are already rich and able to continue owning everything by outcompeting working people. Building more has started to mean little to me if we (as in arbitrary municipalities or governing bodies) don't treat it as a special market in which people can't just buy as many as they want