GENEVA - Letting agents in Eaux-Vives, Plainpalais and Carouge said February brought no thaw in family-sized stock. International organisations and commodity firms still underwrite a price ceiling that local nurses cannot meet. Sublets circulate in private chats before they reach a portal.
The canton's vacancy rate has sat near the bottom of the Swiss table for years. New blocks at the edge of the city do not refill the inner courtyards.
A western shortage
Lausanne and the Vaud Riviera are not an overflow valve. They are another pressure point, as our later semester report shows. Geneva's winter is simply the tightest version of the same arithmetic.