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Like many Berliners, Jim Berghäuser is on the lookout for a new apartment. Living on the outskirts of the city means he's traveling an hour and a half to get to his university. “For me, it's more that this living arrangement I have now is so far away from everything, and this makes people kind of lonely because if [you] always needs a lot of time to get somewhere, you don't go somewhere that often. And I lose so much time every day to get to my university," says Berghäuser, a law student and a member of the Alliance Against Displacement and Rent Madness. Berlin's Tenant Association says one of...
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The rising cost of living is the most pressing concern for more than 90% of Europeans. Official data sheds light on the reasons behind this growing anxiety. Household consumption expenditure shows the allocation of spendings made by resident households to meet their everyday needs, such as food, housing (rent), clothing, energy, health and transport. Housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels accounted for the largest share of household consumption in the EU in 2022, representing 24.1%. This was followed by food and non-alcoholic beverages at 13.6%, and transport costs at 12.5%. While t...
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Between 2010 and the end of 2023, average rents in the EU increased by almost 23% and house prices by nearly 48%, leading to protests in cities from Dublin to Amsterdam or Lisbon about the loss of purchasing power. The lack of affordable housing and the rising cost of living have even featured prominently in national and European election campaigns - so while seeking MEPs' approval, von der Leyen did her best to address these concerns in her speech to the European Parliament. "People are struggling to find affordable homes," the president of the EU executive told the mid-July plenary in Strasb...
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Germany's building sector has been in crisis for months and is still failing to show any signs recovery with the latest economic data revealing the industry is still in a "dismal situation", ING senior analyst Carsten Brzeski has told CNBC. Data published last week showed that permits for new builds dropped 24.2% in May compared with the same month last year while permits for new builds over the past two years have fallen nearly 40%. The industry's outlook continued to "only know one direction: downwards", Felix Pakleppa, head of the Central Association of the German Construction Industry said...
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Housing insecurity is on the rise as the cost of housing increases, homelessness grows, and the availability of decent housing decreases worldwide. Recent research published in the journal Pediatrics found that housing insecurity impacts children’s well-being into their teenage years. Teenagers who experienced some degree of housing insecurity in their childhood were found to be more likely to have adverse health outcomes. The research was based on data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCWB) study, which followed children from age one through adolescence. The study examined wh...
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The Swiss city of Zurich and the Irish capital Dublin top the price rankings in a recent report on construction costs across Europe. Data released this week by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and Trinity College Dublin looks at the price of building the same unit across ten cities. The benchmark was a block of 39 apartments over seven or more storeys, containing mostly two-bedroom dwellings. According to the report, the cost of building this kind of apartment in Zurich is around €2,866 per square metre, the highest figure recorded. Germany announces €23 billion tax cuts to help infl...
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Kensington and Bayswater is one of the wealthiest areas in the United Kingdom. But it’s also one of the most socially-divided. In the constituency’s south, upscale mansions line streets among the most prosperous in the world. Walk northwards, and these luxury homes butt up against crowded housing estates. This deep social divide often translates into razor-thin electoral margins. The seat - redrawn to include Bayswater as part of last year’s boundary review - was among the most marginal in the country in the 2019 general election, where the Conservatives edged ahead of Labour by just 150 votes...
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The housing crisis is an increasing concern across Europe, with shortages and escalating rents becoming more prevalent. Homelessness is also on the rise, posing a significant problem. According to the OECD, the UK has the highest rate of homelessness in Europe, having more than doubled over the past 13 years. Housing tenure has undergone significant changes in the UK in recent decades. In England, the proportion of private renters surpassed that of social renters in the early 2010s for the first time in more than four decades of available data. Similarly, the gap between private and social ren...
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Rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing have pushed more people into homelessness in the UK amid the biggest decline in living standards since World War II. With the housing crisis set to be one of the deciding issues of an upcoming parliamentary election, the homeless charity Crisis has recently been helping homeless people register to vote so they can have their voices heard. Trevor, a homeless man who has been visiting the Crisis centre in Brent, said the last time he voted was for Brexit. He added he felt disillusioned and that the homeless and their struggles had been forgotten ...
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