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mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• luokaton@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  is there no housing crisis in Europe anymore? have i missed the memo and forgot to afford a house?

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  • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that’s only on few selected places.

    I live in capital metropol area in decent location and can afford ~100m² rental apartment while working office hours on low end wages.

    No housing crisis here.

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s still super fucked up that you’re basically gifting some other person a sizeable chunk of your income just because they were able to put up a down payment and secure a mortgage. Landlords are middlemen leaches that should not exist even by capitalist standards, see Adam Smith.

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      • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why?

        My rent is lower than mortage installments and upkeep costs of smaller apartment.

        If I need to relocate, I can do it quite fast, like within a month if needed and no need to sell or buy.

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  • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay, I’m curious, how exactly do you think landlords affect your ability to buy a house?

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    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would look at things like “supply and demand” to answer that question.

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      • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t get it. Landlords don’t buy houses. They mostly buy apartment blocks. At least in central europe, where I’m located. It’s usually not lucrative enough to invest money into a house to rent it back out for like 1500€ - 2000€ a month when you can invest the same amount into an apartment block, have 10 apartments and make like 800€/apartment.

        Also, in germany specifically, the problem isn’t landlords. It’s extremely restrictive and confusing building regulations that are extremely hard to fulfill. Well, and the prices for raw materials are currently through the roof aswell. No idea how it’s in other european countries tho.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, this is very much also applies to Europe.

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• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Classic lefty talk, landlords are bad yada yada yada I guess.

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