Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

The mood is at rock bottom and the investment climate couldn't be worse.

The motivation among people, if you listen around, has actually completely disappeared.

The slump in construction financing continues in Germany in April. New business with private real estate loans has fallen by half compared to the same month last year. The loan volume was only 13 billion euros. This makes it the weakest April since data collection began 20 years ago.

-50% compared to the previous year and -15% compared to the previous month
There have never been such weak April figures in the past 20 years.
The crash is enormous!

Partly intentional, partly caused by bungled politics and of course primarily owed to the ECB.

I can understand Gen Z, they no longer have a chance to build something. The state is insatiable and taxes will continue to explode. If you invite the whole world in, the welfare state simply becomes very expensive.

The only party that finally wants to tackle this is scandalized by the media. Still around 20%, with a tendency to increase further.

It remains exciting, this time I am observing from a safe distance.

The only party that finally wants to tackle this is being scandalized by the media. Still at almost 20%, with a tendency to further increase.

Hopefully they will finally clarify the situation with the chemtrails as well

I'm confused. The Greens' poll numbers are at the level of the 2021 election results. Therefore, I don't see the "crash" of the Greens, and Habeck will get through it...

Sometimes I feel sorry for Robi. His law is half-heartedly leaked to the press, probably by a coalition partner, and people are standing at his door with torches and pitchforks. Then he put his best man in a position for which he had the competence and probably did a solid job. That person then messed up – Robi is to blame again. Who was it that actually resigned because of all the Corona mask deals? Surely Robi sometimes stays longer at the ministry in the evening and just approves a few Bafa payments. Just to relax. :p

I can understand Gen Z, they no longer have a chance to build anything. The state is insatiable and the charges will continue to explode. If you invite the whole world in, then it simply becomes very expensive in the welfare state. The only party that finally wants to tackle this is being scandalized by the media. Still at almost 20%, with a tendency to increase further.

Interesting that this right-wing statement and the myth of the expensive welfare state and insatiable state and the previous posts remain as they are here. While I share the criticism of regarding the corona measures, I see no connection here between the refugees taken in and rising construction costs and the burden on the younger generation. And the party that "wants to tackle this" primarily wants to change asylum policy. Otherwise, it differs only on corona and Ukraine/war issues (sad that only and exactly the AfD opposes here) from the CDU and FDP. In terms of environmental protection and economic policy and also social policy (also for "Germans"), this seemingly committed party fits perfectly with the hardliners among the conservatives. If you want to enable a broader section of the population to access affordable housing and also home ownership, it is no use building fences and letting ships sink. Income and wealth have simply diverged so strongly in the last 30 years that fewer and fewer people have money left over. At the same time, social benefits were cut back (Hartz IV and the new Bürgergeld relabeling) and thereby wages were kept low overall for the broad masses. On the other hand, the top tax rate was reduced, loopholes for corporations (see Starbucks, Apple, Amazon, etc.) and capital owners were created (capital gains tax) or tolerated (Cum-Ex, Scholz-Warburg), spending on basic services and infrastructure was cut back (closure of hospitals, privatization of nursing care -> profit outflow to private entities, decline of DB and route closures), general losses and risks were socialized (bank rescues, corona measures for large corporations while bonuses and dividends were paid, nuclear phase-out-entry-reentry-exit severance payments) and the tax and charge burden for the majority of the population was increased (broadcasting fee, fixed costs for fees instead of taxes, expensive public transport - subsidized highways, cold progression due to inflation).

Interesting that this right-wing statement and the myth of the expensive welfare state and the insatiable state, as well as the previous posts, remain unchanged here.

The appearance is deceiving because we are already on page 1800+. Right-wing ideology has often and vehemently been contradicted here by the majority of participants. However, a factual discourse is not possible, as facts and opinions are often mixed up, straw man arguments and also the usual basics of poor discussion culture are applied.
Therefore, the majority of forum participants have probably simply stopped feeding the trolls.

Interesting that this right-wing statement and the myth of the expensive welfare state and insatiable state and the previous posts remain as they are.

The appearance is deceiving because we are already on page 1800+. Right-wing ideology has often and vehemently been contradicted here by the majority of participants. However, a factual discourse is not possible because facts and opinions are often mixed up, strawman arguments and also the usual go-to's of poor discussion culture are applied. Therefore, the majority of forum participants have probably simply stopped feeding the trolls.

Sorry, but freedom of opinion does not end where your comfort zone ends. That things are going the way they are and that there is a lot of discontent is simply undeniable.