This is what worked for me.
sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername .cache .config
Must be executed in your home directory.

After this, Ubuntu software center seems to load properly.

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software-center crashed with IOError in _open()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652151
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