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.. and it's EU wide due to the open market (housing among others). Yet we care more for plastic straws
by seydor 3y ago
.. and it's EU wide due to the open market (housing among others). Yet we care more for plastic straws
- api 3y agoThe housing crisis is only a crisis if you're not a property owner, and in most cases property owners de facto control governments if for no other reason than the fact that they tend to be older and vote more. This is true in the US and probably in the EU too.
- mostlylurks 3y agoMuch of the EU has the added problem of there simply being more old people than young people, making this issue and some others, like the pension issue, much more hopeless than they would be in countries with healthy[0] population pyramids. [0]: "Healthy" being a shorthand for "compatible with our[1] current economic system". [1]: Basically the entire world.
- HPsquared 3y agoCould call it the "population pyramid scheme"
- HPsquared 3y agoBasically every government policy over the last 20+ years is in the direction of increasing house prices and rents. The good news is that if every policy is currently at "increase prices", any change will result in a decrease. Surely we must be approaching the peak now, what other things could they possibly do to restrict supply / increase demand? (I guess the climate goals leave a lot of freedom to continue tweaking)
- seydor 3y agoMaybe if renting is shown to be bad for the environment or sth
- zo1 3y agoSomething something, you will own nothing, right?
- gs17 3y agoI'd expect it to be worse for the environment than owning. My apartment has an electric heat system older than myself instead of a modern, efficient heat pump because I rent (to be fair, I'm not sure how the math works out on keeping the inefficient but working current HVAC system over replacing it, environmentally, but if it breaks, the cheapest possible thing that fits will replace it). I can't improve the insulation because I rent. I could never have something like solar panels because I rent. These investments would save energy, but utilities are my responsibility so my landlords haven't been interested. The most I can do as a renter is replace lightbulbs with LEDs. Plus, every time we're forced to move we end up making a lot of trash and burn a lot of fuel moving things.
- baal80spam 3y agoThe ruling class will do nothing to decrease real estate prices because it has skin in the game - they do NOT want them to decrease.