HThe ousing as a personal issue it will take. The houses where we have dropped from outside the world, expressing ourselves, build relationships and family. Buying or renting a house is making your wishes and dreams of bricks and mortar – can we see ourselves sitting outside Sunshine? It can also be a surprising process – can we afford the house? For more and more of us, the answer is not.
Experienced such individual level, it’s easy to think that increases of costs are a problem specifically in your community, township. But the irreversible price at home and rent is a continent issue. According to European parliament, from 2015 to 2023, in full terms, households in the EU house rose below 50% generally. From 2010 to 2022, the rents rose to 18%.
As an editor, I want to know some stories behind these stats and, as a person living in a very expensive city (Hello from London!), Listen to some solutions. I ordered different housing experts to contribute to a series, European housing crisisthat illustrates what is the case with some of the most expensive cities in Europe.
Agustín Cookela-Gant writes As for the policy changes after the 2008 financial crisis urges rich foreigners to buy second homes or short-term lease of Lisbon, left in their town. Now some Portuguese families break rooms, not flats.
In a change in roles, it is the newest worst in Amsterdam, according to Amber Howard. Older, long-term residents live in safe and affordable social housing while young and recent arrivals, remaining in the expensive housing sector. While the social house stocks fall in the long run, private stocks grow as politicians seek to encourage the sellers to the people to move to the city.
It was a similar Budapest story, said Csaaba Jelinek. Social housing is sold after the end of the Cold War, and private ownership is camped as a dismissal of socialist ideals. Its mean in practice is older Hungarians who invest in home and drive prices and rents for young generations.
A city without facing a crisis in the ability is Vienna. As Justin Kadi wrote, since the 1920s the city has a strong stock of social housing for tenants in all incomes. Like Amsterdam, new newcomers rent private, but social residence has a damp effect on the rent.
You don’t need to be an expert at home to see the dynamics playing in the home market in Europe. More than 40 years, housing policy favors investors in houses that are expended with its inhabitants. This unbalanced power is more than countries with many institutions investors – such as private equity equity, hedge, insurance funds – while the insurance funds in his piece.
If houses are not houses but assets, there will be wealth transfer from those who have no. In total Europe – and most of the rest of the world – the property has become a powerful driving in uneven. In turn, inequality is a force that drives irritation. Harvest politicians focus on this anger for their own political profit, as reported by Guardian in the previous series of reports from the frontlines of European house crisis. As the European Commissioner for jobs and social rights, Nicolas Schmit, commented: “The problem at home Our societies are dividedand it can be a risk for our democracy. “
Housing policies are set to a national level, but the European Union can place frameworks and financial access support. In 2024, all ministers of housing from member members signed a statement calling for a “New Deal“In cheap and social residence.
There are solutions, and have political will, and is currently expected if this series is to help facilitate the faces of european residence that they do not know.
