GENEVA - New blocks on the city's edge came to market in early May at rents that suit international contracts more than cantonal salaries. Inner-commune waiting lists for older flats barely moved. The mismatch is now a local cliche and still a local fact.
Tenant groups said Labour Day had given them a crowd. It had not given them keys. City officials pointed to land prices and objections, the two slowest machines in planning.
A national shortage in miniature
Permit data later in the month, in our 19 May report, will show the same brake in other large cantons. Geneva is simply further along the same road.