The hous­ing mar­ket in Utrecht is under sim­il­ar pres­sure as in Ams­ter­dam. The pop­u­la­tion is expec­ted to increase by 25% by 2030. In recent years, numer­ous new hous­ing pro­jects have been developed, ran­ging from col­lect­ive hous­ing yards to trans­form­a­tions of indus­tri­al areas and large-scale urb­an expan­sions.  Some of the pro­jects are very urb­an, such as a high-rise res­id­en­tial build­ing above a street­car stop at the main train sta­tion. Some­times they have an almost vil­lage-like char­ac­ter, such as a wooden apart­ment build­ing on a green court­yard. The con­ver­sion of indus­tri­al areas is also part of the pro­gram, above all the new low-car res­id­en­tial area of Wis­selspoor. In the west of the city, on the oth­er hand, lies Leidsche Rijn, one of the largest urb­an expan­sion pro­jects in the Netherlands.