HS: 32 Helsinki councillors call for more flats in city centre

COUNCILLORS at the City of Helsinki are urging bureaucrats to take “determined action” to increase housing in the downtown area and its immediate vicinity, reports Helsingin Sanomat.

Osmo Soininvaara (Greens) and 31 of his colleagues argue in their initiative that increasing housing in the area is a means to revitalise the area in the face of rising remote work, growth of e-commerce, completion of new shopping centres, scattering of nightlife activity and disappearance of visitors from China and Russia.