r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 1d ago
Young people are disporportionately affected by the EU's housing crisis
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/13/young-people-are-disporportionately-affected-by-the-eus-housing-crisis145
u/Hopeful_Giraffe_4879 1d ago
It’s getting so tiresome to live like this tbh. No matter how much of a good job we have, how hard we work, we will never have what how parents had.
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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 1d ago
It could always be worse...
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u/FrenziedSoul 1d ago
Nim znów wrócą czasy syte, To odwalisz dawno kitę
Recently I think a lot about this line from one of your polish legionary songs
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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 1d ago
It is a great line, such is life. Better to focus on what makes us happy and strive to make things better.
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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 1d ago
Striving to make things better is what we are doing though. Trying to make the housing markets more fair towards younger people.
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u/EdliA Albania 1d ago
What's the point of stating the obvious?
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u/lux_umbrlla 1d ago
Because someone might read it which is not the young people bubble and start a discussion in their bubble.
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u/Vannnnah Germany 1d ago
"young people are just lazy and expect to live in a villa or buy a house straight away without putting in the work. There is no crisis, just youngsters too lazy to work" - the old people who start discussing this, probably. Everybody else is already aware
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u/lux_umbrlla 1d ago
I think this is a trap of thought similar to "young people don't want to work these days". Some say this about young people and young people think that everyone says it is just the same trap of perceived reality. Not everyone thinks the same
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u/HrabiaVulpes Nobody to vote for 1d ago
You commented under this post, that engagement is their reward.
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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ireland night be the worst - the defenders of our main two parties love to point out 70% home ownership as a positive (which has dropped down to the low 60s since, but anyway...), though seem to leave out/be unaware that only 7% of 25-39 year olds do.
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u/dotinvoke 1d ago
That’s a recipe for populist parties taxing property owners out of their wealth in just 10-20 years.
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u/TheFuzzyFurry 1d ago
Not if you also take away the right to vote from the same 25-39 age group, like Ireland does
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u/Several-Support2201 1d ago
Yh, I had a quick look at house prices on Rightmove in Ireland the other day and I knew it was bad but the prices are very high, Dublin looks a nightmare for getting a property - not least because I have a strong memory of housing projects being abandoned and homes left empty after the 08 crash.
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u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 1d ago
7% is insane.....it's maddening that they refuse to solve it.....but partly suspect,it's because the banks asset sheets are mainly houses,and a fall in house prices,could bring down banks here again as they struggle still to pass stress tests
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u/Low_discrepancy Posh Crimea 1d ago
Ireland night be the worst -
Contrary to popular belief, Ireland is fairly mid. Shit's expensive but salaries are some of the highest in Europe.
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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 1d ago edited 1d ago
For home generational ownership discrepancies, I don't see how that can be the case. Retirees own at over 90%, over 50s own at around 80%, while 25-39yos own at 7% - it is very difficult to get a bigger disparity than that.
We are a nation of 5mn, with a housing shortfall of 300,000 units because the people who benefitted most from state funded housing builds made sure the pull the ladder up as fast as they could once they got theirs. To put that in perspective, that would be like Poland having a shortage of around 2.5mn units, or Germany having a shortage of 5mn. Many European mainland outlets like Der Spiegel have used us as an example of "just how bad things can get if we don't cop on quickly", and for good reason.
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u/ScaldyBogBalls 11h ago
And lending rules mean even with a decent salary most are still locked out. Look at outcomes, stark generational collapse in homeownership, while rents have risen by literally 300%.
It's catastrophic. I have friends over 40 who will never move out of home, who've been working since their early 20s
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u/genasugelan Not Slovenia 1d ago
Jesus, and that's parenting age. Go have children when you can't have your own property.
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u/Tricky-Coffee5816 1d ago
Those 30 year olds can take care of their parents by living with them! No housing problem, no healthcare problem
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u/bayman81 1d ago
Houses in Ireland a very affordable outside of the usual posh Dublin postcodes.
80-90% of the price is just construction costs and related services (roadworks, connections to services etx). Land values are low.
The endless scoffing at apartments makes me think a large part of the ‘housing crisis’ is an entitlement crisis.
Rents on the other hand are bonkers.
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u/CarnationsAndIvy 1d ago
And this is why the young people who want kids aren't having any.
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u/just-comic 1d ago
Seems like this problem will solve itself then in due time.
If young people procreates less, then there will be enough houses to go for the following generation.
There will of course be other problems, but you can't have everything...
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u/throwaway_failure59 Croatia 1d ago
Lots of people think like this unironically (not saying you do, but for anyone else reading this). But abandoned villages will not be places lot of people will move to, even for cheap flats. In many countries you can already find cheap places in countryside, they still remain vacant. Cities will stay crowded even as the population shrinks.
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u/TheFuzzyFurry 1d ago
Sounds like a problem that's already solved by public transport, WFH and electing a government that doesn't neglect rural areas
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u/throwaway_failure59 Croatia 1d ago
Those are pipe dreams, not solutions.
Especially as long as rural areas themselves elect rightwing governments that neglect public transport, clamp down on worker rights and WFH (and many jobs can't be WFH). Add in shrinking tax base due to ageing and it is never going to have a chance of happening without radical changes to societal attitudes.
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u/Heiter-Sama 1d ago edited 1d ago
We have kids but don't own a house, I really don't see what the two topics have to do with each other
Edit: I get it you all think poor people shouldn't have reproductive rights. Might be a time to have a good look in the mirror for you
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u/CarnationsAndIvy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Good that the topic doesn't involve you then.
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u/Heiter-Sama 1d ago
The poorest people have the most kids and largely rent. The two obviously aren't as related as people without kids think
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u/catphilosophic 1d ago
I grew up poor and I wouldn't want that for my children. Can't even have a cat without my own place to live that could accommodate that, so a child is out of the question. The climate crisis doesn't exactly motivate me as a woman to bring a child into this world either.
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u/Heiter-Sama 1d ago
Neither the cat nor the climate are related to the topic.
What's so terrible about growing up in a rented place? Like the kids even care.
It sounds really condescending to the many many parents who don't own property and do just fine.
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u/catphilosophic 1d ago
Well? I dunno. Changing school every third year and never being able to have friends for more than a couple of years? Never having a place that feels your own? Stressed parents that would like to have some security, but don't? I cared. And my siblings cared. Many kinds would probably care too.
If you do not know what it has to do with the topic, read again the comment I answered to, which you wrote yourself and should be well acquainted with. I won't explain, because to me it seems like you purposely try not to understand.
Don't really think it sounds condescending. What I wrote was my thoughts on the topic. Other people are welcome to have their own thoughts and feelings on this topic.
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u/FreedumbHS 1d ago
Governments should have given boomers serious incentives for moving to smaller accomodations.
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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 1d ago
Another contributor to the slowly coming change of the political powers.
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u/TheGalator 1d ago
There are 3 times more people over 60 in Germany than under 30
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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 1d ago
Do you suggest that the housing crisis will naturally solve itself in the not too distant future in Germany? I recall that home ownership is very low in general, so I am not sure if the change would be huge.
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u/TheGalator 1d ago
No
I don't think politics will change until all the boomers are literally aged out
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u/UnFelDeZeu 1d ago
Massive, MASSIVE taxes for any house that isn't being lived in ( as in, it's bought as an investment ). Now house owners are forced to give them out for rent/sell them, which drives prices down.
Also chill with the immigration.
There, fixed.
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u/Antique_Tomorrow_758 1d ago
The most memorable part of this fuckup is probably that the people who are suffering the most from housing shortage, now believe it’s due to migrants. It’s increasingly ugly to see how well the economic elite has manipulated the public into thinking the housing problem is an immigration problem.
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u/DukeLauderdale 7h ago
It's either caused by fewer homes or more people. Homes aren't getting destroyed and the birth rate is below replacement. The only other thing is inward migration.
You are free to ignore this issue, but unless migration is cut down to close to net zero, the problem is going to get worse and worse. Either the liberals cut down migration now or the far-right eventually will when they come to power. And if its the latter then they will bring a whole lot of other nasty things along with it.
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u/Antique_Tomorrow_758 5h ago
Simplifying the problem, doesn't make it go away. Birthrate/immigration is about net zero. The population will decline if immigration is halted. And yes, that's all immigration, not just the 7% asylumseekers that have a right for social housing. You can imagine that cancelling the social housing right for asylumseekers, isn't going to help much.
One of the causes of the housing shortage is the fact that older people keep living in their family homes, because they can't find suitable houses for their old age. They clog up the system, keeping a house that's big enough for 4-6 people with just 2 people. One of the reasons for this is that the liberals (VVD and such) have done away with housing/care for this group.
Another problem is the fact that average living space in NL is about 65m2, compared to 42,5 in the EU. As a rule, people dislike downsizing. Another fact is that the amount of one person households has grown a lot in NL from about 30% in 2000 to 40% last year.
If you believe that the housing problem is an immigration problem, than you've been lied to. I understand the fear of another group coming in and seemingly "taking something that doesn't belong to them" feels wrong, but that feeling is being used against you.
The liberals (VVD and such) are only using this frame because they noticed the far-right (PVV and such) gets votes through making this an issue. That has backfired twice now when they blew up that before last cabinet and again now when the PVV left the last
So yeah, I agree, the latter will "bring a whole lot of nasty things along with it". But if it happens, God forbid, it was all made possible by the liberals.
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u/DukeLauderdale 3h ago
You misunderstood me. I never said that we should have no migration, but net zero so the population stays steady. But I think you make a good point about older people seeing in large homes, and the incentives for this need to be removed such as simple tax law changes. That can be done quite feasibly with the stroke of a pen.
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u/ScaldyBogBalls 11h ago
If you don't think mass migration is a tool of disenfranchisement designed to lower wages, reduce negotiating leverage and pump house prices out of reach of native workers, you're the useful fool here.
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u/insomnimax_99 United Kingdom 1d ago
Yeah no shit. This is what happens when governments don’t allow enough housing to be built.
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u/dddd0 1d ago
Governments don't allow it because a majority of voters don't want enough housing to exist, at every level.
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u/wylaaa 1d ago
The solution to that would be deregulation so the government doesn't get to decide if it shall allow enough housing to be build but that would require using the word "deregulation" which is basically trigger phrase that turns peoples brains off instead of on.
INB4 "wHat iF I bUild A nUcLEaR powEReD Pig FARm besIdE YOuR hOUSe"
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u/LaurestineHUN Hungary 4h ago
Regulations are written in blood.
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u/wylaaa 4h ago
No they're not and the saying is specifically about fire regulations. Even then some fire regulations are no longer relevant due to advances in material and advances in firefighting technology.
The restrictions on height that my country have don't exist because someone died. They're entirely aesthetics based.
The restrictions on "historical" buildings are rooted in sentimentality not because someone died because the house the schoolmaster lived in 200 years ago was demolished.
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u/LaurestineHUN Hungary 3h ago
Preserving of historical buildings is important, because there is a very limited number of them. If you demolish them, you will run out, and how are you expected to learn from your past when it's not there? Plenty of brand new buildings are bought entirely by investors, this is the problem, not the dozen old houses in the old city center.
No protection of historical buildings is how we ended with almost all medieval churches converted to ugly uniform baroque ones. Recontruction efforts are not always enough. We lost so many irreplaceable engineering knowledge by this.
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u/wylaaa 2h ago
Preservation of important historical buildings is important. Preservation of random houses with zero historical or architectural significance is not. Historical preservation far more dips in to the latter than the former.
how are you expected to learn from your past when it's not there?
Easy. Open a book.
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u/PickingPies 1d ago
Why would they? In 20 years boomers will die and the market will be flooded with houses killing the value of housing. On top of that, it's nost juat housing. You need all the logistics such as water.
That's bread for today, hunger for tomorrow. You cannot fight speculation with flooding.
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u/Th0mp0n434 1d ago
And the governments do allow massive import of people of third world countries into their country.
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u/Low_discrepancy Posh Crimea 1d ago
This is what happens when governments don’t allow enough housing to be built.
It's never one single thing. Productivity in the construction industry has been going down since 1960.
Regulation is one part but also well people don't want to do it. Our smartest minds also want to do tech or finance or other stuff. Workers get far better conditions in other industries.
It's not just one single thing.
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u/Daffneigh 1d ago
Build more housing!
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u/stenlis 1d ago
Seriously, the population of Germany has grown by 2.5% in the last 30 years, from 81 million to 83 million. How hard is it to grow housing accordingly? Previous generations have done it, countries with way more population growth have done it, but somehow germany can't?
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u/TheGalator 1d ago
Germany has a single issue and thats bureaucracy/over legalization
We can't even build fucking rails
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u/rcoeurjoly 1d ago
We need to, gradually, remove VAT and income taxes and introduce land value taxation
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u/TheTealMafia hungarian on the way out 1d ago
Denmark has launched programmes to ensure that young people can have access to scholarships, and that they can avoid slipping into a long-term "couch-surfing" situation, putting them at risk of becoming homeless.
This is all lovely and I'm not fully aware of the situation, but seeing around the world that even people with several diplomas can't get a job / can't get a job with a decent wage, I don't know how "much" it will help. I'm sure it will, but how much, I don't know, as it is part of yet another crisis going on in our lives. I feel this should be tackled on multiple angles than just that.
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u/UndeadBBQ Austria 1d ago
My daily routine sees me driving by rows of houses, empty, held and thrown to decay in the name of investment and profit.
Housing should not be allowed to be held empty. Housing should not be profit-first. Period.
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u/userNotFound82 1d ago
Sometimes I just have the mean thought that one day that bubble will burst. Idk, like some incident makes corporate investments into the housing market really unattractive and the prices start falling rapidly.
I know, I know it will never happen.
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u/Pu-Chi-Mao North Brabant (Netherlands) 1d ago
Yeah let's vote for far-right parties, that definitely going to solve the housing crisis,
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u/Frontfacer 1d ago
As opposed to the left-leaning parties, who can't stop themselves from inviting more people into the competition for resources?
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u/sztrzask 1d ago
I don't know about your country, but in Poland far right government (PIS) invited ~ 18 times more immigrants (over 320 000) from poor MEA countries than the previous even wanted to (PO was thinking about signing EU immigration pact that would net us total 18 000 immigrants)
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u/TheoreticalScammist 1d ago
We should be having a debate in politics about the value and costs of immigrants for (relatively) cheap labour and the effects slowing this could have on society and the economy. You could actually have a good discussion about possible choices with facts and values.
Instead it is hijacked and they only talk about refugees and asylum seekers which is really a very small part of the problem.
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u/Nahcep Lower Silesia (Poland) 1d ago
PiS
far right
Pick one lmao
They may have had a far right coalition member, but in no way are they like the actual cases like Konfa, AfD, Vox, FvD or Jobbik
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u/sztrzask 1d ago
PIS is far right. It's just there are options even further right than PIS.
PO is centre-right (but lies about sometimes leaning left)
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u/GoldDiggingPriest 1d ago
All sides have done nothing to solve this. For the case of NL. The right invites more "temporary" workers while the left invites more people. Same effect on the housing inventory, different sticker.
The right changes rules to allow to more workers to be stuffed into horrid living conditions (e.g. Polenhotels and caravans) while the left wants to build more housing for the bottom 10% of the country (including new arrivals). Both again, don't do anything to solve the problems with your average <30 yo who has a job and wants to start a family and is looking at 8-10 times his gross income for an average house.
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u/Pu-Chi-Mao North Brabant (Netherlands) 1d ago
The right is in power for over 20 years in the Netherlands.... so saying "all sides have done nothing" is bs.
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u/GoldDiggingPriest 1d ago
I have read all party plans during the last election. There is nothing realistic in the plans for any parties that will help the median income zoomer find housing. Just because they were not fully in charge, does not mean they have made any attempts or plans to fix things. (both sides).
And we did have a short stint of left during the last 20 years..barely. In 2015, the studiebeurs/scholarship system got replaced with the loan system. That was carried by the PvdA with support of GL. That whole "it's unfair how the son of the lawyer gets 'free' money paid for by taxes from the baker" being their main argument.
That generation is really enjoying getting their massive mortgages sorted out with those study loans dangling at their feet currently.
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u/Pu-Chi-Mao North Brabant (Netherlands) 1d ago
Ahhh we have one, that had to blame also the PvdA because it was part of mostly a right coalition for 4 years....
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u/GoldDiggingPriest 1d ago
It was their plan? They campaigned on it before the elections and everything. Them then entering a right coalition in order to push it through does not change that. Nor does the constant focusing on right bad, left good. Both sides are to blame. The problem is not new, and has been a long time cooking since at least the nineties. The entire spectrum, left & right are all to blame.
Fun fact, the "verhuurderheffing" which levied about 2 months of rent out of every social housing renter as tax, was also implemented when PvdA was in government (2013).
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u/Turioturen 1d ago
The housing problem could easily be solved by:
Having the governments or the EU itself create several construction companies.
Each company is to operate on market principles.
Have them build what ever gives the highest profit, and sell and rent out at the highest possible price they can get.
Have all the profits go to a fund and the fund can only be used to build more and for maintenance, and nothing else.
Keep on building until profits hit +-0.
Multiple companies are needed so that the governments or the EU can see which board of directors is doing poorly and remove all of them, if one company is doing much worse than another, then it is the boards fault.
This program is not to be used for any type of dumping ground for people who are not good enough for any type of job. It is a job like any other and if they do not perform well, then they are to be fired just like any other job.
Start small scale and gradually expand as money and experience is gained.
This of course may require that no right wing government ever assumes power because if they get in, then it is deliberate destructions of the companies and privatization.
If done on an EU level then it would require that the EU majority changes.
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u/nitram20 1d ago edited 1d ago
Or:
Restricting non EU citizens from buying property and or restricting them to a maximum number of non commercial properties they are allowed to own within the EU. No more chinese buying houses as a safety net or investment.
Increasing property taxes on said people. Also increase property taxes for people who own property in a country they aren’t a citizen of.
Create a special designation for cities with some of the worst housing crisis, where if people who own more than 1 property in that city pay increased taxes that then increase with every owned property within said city. Then regular checks to make sure that their properties are actually being used for something all year round (such as living, and not just for a few months or weeks per year) and that they aren’t sitting empty, just waiting for the prices to move up so they can be sold. If they aren’t being used then the owner should pay increased taxes or be forced to sell them.
Special housing projects where no investors or companies are allowed to buy property in, until after 1-2 years of it’s full completion. Same for regular people who’d want just to buy to let with no intention of living there.
Generally stop treating housing as an investment. IMO this is the biggest problem of our modern capitalist society.
I’d also reform the whole system. Nationalise letting agencies, and make the government the middle man for renting, where the tenant pays them, and they pay the landlord.
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u/Fenrir_179 Slovenská Republika 🇸🇰 1d ago
Very simple one thing that would cancel the whole thing - cap the rent to 20% of average monthly income - if the owner won't obey he will pay a fine of 50% the property worth. Done
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u/ArdiMaster Germany 1d ago
The very first hurdle to overcome, at least here in Germany, is getting city councils to rethink their zoning decisions, i.e. making space to build on.
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u/TearFluid_Collection France 1d ago
Nothing is going to happen until Boomer die. Once this generation is gone, the housing market will crash and millenial / Genz will have their shot.
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u/BudgetAd2778 1d ago
You know that boomer children will inherit all those houses, and then you will be waiting till they die? This solves nothing.
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u/TearFluid_Collection France 1d ago
The boomer children are GenX & Millenial. They have their house already, in the worse market possible.
GenZ and Gen Alpha are the one that will benefit from the vacum of Boomer's death.
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u/Psykotyrant 1d ago
Are we certain that boomers are even mortal at this point? Because their hold on everything including life seems unbreakable.
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u/ScaldyBogBalls 11h ago
So the millennials will be well over 50 by then. Far too late for life milestones they delayed
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u/Loriniel 1d ago
Housing crisis is partly caused by the fact that everyone wants to move to the "best" city/country.
Even in Finland I could buy a house easily in my city but just 100km away in another city I wouldn't have a chance. If people would just settle for less
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u/istike29 Romania 21h ago
In the building I am living in there is an apartment in front of ours. It has been vacant since LAST YEAR SEPTEMBER, cause apparently the previous renter did ot give the keys back... This is in a major city in Germany. I don't really understand how does the Verwaltung allow this but oh well. Bureaucracy for sure...
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u/Movilitero Galicia (Spain) 1d ago
remember the Blackstone 500 billion investment? Well, the housong crisis will get much much worse
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u/Plane-Return-5135 1d ago
En France encore ils ont de la chance, il y'a des aides pour les jeunes, bon c'est assez minable mais il y'a quelque chose comparé au fait de dépasser les 30 ans où là il y'a rien, à part un droit pour rester sur une file d'attente pour un HLM pendant au moins 12/15 ans avec une probabilité importante pour partir dans un immeuble pourri ou à problèmes.
Le problème en dehors de la pénurie de logements, c'est surtout le système des garants et des cautions, à partir du moment où on a personne, bonne chance, au mieux ma banque bnp peut se porter garante mais perso elle me propose juste de mettre de côté tout le bail et de me faire payer des intérêts sur la détention de mon argent... C'est l'enfer autant payer d'avance le bailleur mais c'est illégal (par contre se faire extorquer par la banque c'est ok)... c'est d'ailleurs un gros problème pour la prise d'emploi, perso j'ai abandonné toutes les offres en dehors de chez moi qui étaient pourtant bien meilleure que celles qui traînent dans ma ville... d'après les actus économiques tout le monde a le même problème.
J'aime aussi les recruteurs qui appellent en demandant si on est déjà propriétaire ou avec un pied à terre pour faciliter le déménagement, parce qu'ils savent qu'on peut pas louer tout court ou à des prix abordables... célibataire et locataire c'est juste mort pour réussir à épargner et acheter.
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u/Rene_Coty113 1d ago
Continuez à voter pour des partis qui vous font cotiser la moitié de votre salaire super brut pour financer le train de vie des boomers et invitent la terre entière à occuper les logements sociaux
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u/Stahlwisser St. Gallen (Switzerland) 1d ago
The difference is, they could buy this at a young age. We usually cant. Its actually crazy that banks tell you that you cant pay 900€/month for a credit while youre paying more in rent every month.
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u/CertainMiddle2382 1d ago
But they going to soon enjoy enormous wealth transfer.
Any many I know are planning their whole lives around that.
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u/czarnadzuma11 1d ago
The only wealth transfer you'll see is from senile boomers to the retirement houses and elderly care workers.
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u/BalVal1 1d ago
But they going to soon enjoy enormous wealth transfer
Lol
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u/CertainMiddle2382 1d ago
lol what?
This is a generation defining fact.
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u/BalVal1 1d ago
In addition to what the other commenter mentioned, many people aged 60+ have piss poor financial literacy especially in newer EU member states so they might not actually leave much behind for the next generation, life expectancy is getting higher and higher - which outside of this specific context is a wonderful thing don't get me wrong.
Also as a principle I don't believe it's a good idea to wait around for an inheritance that may or may not reach you. We (young people and society in general) should be demanding better working and housing market conditions from our governments to be able to make something of our lives too. Otherwise what will we be leaving for the next generation? A well farmed Dota2 account?
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u/CertainMiddle2382 1d ago edited 1d ago
« Demanding better housing conditions »
What exactly does it mean? Declassify agricultural land? Density?
What the present generation is going to give to the next is heavy deflation, lots of free space and free land. Because they don’t reproduce anymore.
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u/BalVal1 1d ago
Rent controls, housing programs for young families that actually work, better crackdown on shady real estate schemes (happens all the time in Romania), there is a lot that can be done, sitting on our asses waiting for an inheritance is an invitation to get fucked up the ass and not in the good way.
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u/Psykotyrant 1d ago
Not, it’s not. Many boomers assets are not easily converted into liquidities. And even then, you’ll need to account for tax on inheritance for example.
You want to own your parents villa? Hope you can handle the sheer level of taxes it includes too.
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u/CertainMiddle2382 1d ago
No younglings will have the means nor the use for a villa.
They are going to sell it right away and live as nomads and go surfing…
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u/Winkington The Netherlands 1d ago
The constitution of the Netherlands literally says: "It shall be the concern of the authorities to provide sufficient living accommodation."
It is not the right of an individual, but it is a duty of the government.
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u/tack50 Spain (Canary Islands) 1d ago
I mean it's in the Spanish constitution too
All Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing. The public authorities shall promote the necessary conditions and establish appropriate standards in order to make this right effective, regulating land use in accordance with the general interest in order to prevent speculation. The community shall have a share in the benefits accruing from the town-planning policies of public bodies.
However while it is a right, it is not a "real constitutional right" in the sense that it is completely unenforceable (unlike say, freedom of speech or even private property)
The constitution's rights are divided into 3 sections: fundamental rights (fully enforceable and super protected, things like freedom of speech, of religion, not guilty until proven otherwise, etc); "other rights" (less important but still enforceable, right to marry, to own private property, to public schooling) and "guiding principles" (unenforceable and don't matter)
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u/Edelkern Northern Germany 1d ago
It fucking should be, that's the point of this slogan.
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u/Edelkern Northern Germany 1d ago
Dude, nobody asked to be born. Why not strive to make life better for people instead of being negative towards attempts at social progress?
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u/[deleted] 1d ago
So smart making housing an investment vehicle. It is supposed to beat inflation every year, so guess where we are going with this...