Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Why should strangers also have a claim to 30% of the houses being available to them? Everyone can do whatever they want with their property and their life. There is absolutely no problem if everyone either builds the right house for themselves or simply stays where they live. But this moral undertone that runs through the reporting on this is incredibly cheeky (not with you now).

Legally speaking, that may be true. But a society cannot function like that in the long run. We unfortunately experienced this vividly during Corona, when daycares, schools, playgrounds, and sports clubs were closed... and pensioners sat in large groups in cafés because they were already vaccinated long before the average person could even book an appointment.

We cannot finance an increasingly selfish and aging group of pensioners in the long term.

It is certainly a valid question whether our goal can be that a 90-year-old granny sits in 150m² while a family of four lives in 65m² because they cannot find a larger affordable apartment.

And the young people are no longer willing to give up 20% of their income for pensions... because they know that they will not get any pension at all.

You or others pay for grandma's 150sqm house? Or do you think she rented it in Munich with her pension? Let grandma live in the house (which is her property) as long as she can... Or do you want to relocate her by general decree?

No, of course no one should be relocated. But incentives can be created. The unused living space is needed; with two children (or even more), 80 sqm and three rooms are not really sufficient…

I personally can't imagine any incentive that would make me leave my property in which I have lived for decades... Sorry.

Maybe others can

The incentive to drive the elderly out of their homes will be massively rising costs and fees.

Property tax, electricity costs, insurance, fees such as water, wastewater, stormwater, or even garbage. Added to that is the indirect obligation to renovate, and the dream of a carefree retirement is dead.

Perhaps it will also be inheritance tax or a yet-to-come wealth tax.

But it's very interesting to see how mood and division are now being stirred up against pensioners. A real debate about envy is being conducted.

I'm a bit surprised now, considering we are supposed to be such a woke, open, and liberal society.

And no one is preventing the four-person family from building a fancy city villa. After all, we are a free country.