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20 Architectour.lu © OAI 2018 proportion had increased to one-third by 2011. The pressure on the housing sector is therefore not only affected by demographic changes that have been strongly influenced by waves of immi- gration, but also by social changes in family structure. Indeed, the maisons relais now feature among the construction plans for every town. In 2016, 47.65% of the Grand Duchy’s population was of foreign nationality, and this internation- al dimension presents the challenge of having to provide services and infra- structure that meet the expectations of people of 163 different nationalities! The demand for housing is still greater than the supply, which explains the signifi- cant price pressure we are observing. Spatial inequalities The growth in the population since 2001 has focused more around the agglomer- ation of the capital, which accounts for 40% of the country’s employment. Most apartments are being built in the Luxembourg urban area and in a num- ber of towns in the southern region. The countryside is gradually being inhabit- ed by those working in urban environ- ments, whose conception of living space differs from that of the local population, meaning that local identities are also changing, and that the historical her- itage is being used for new purposes or even replaced. The Observatoire de l’Habitat has in fact been gathering the