Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

There is currently an agency report going through the media on the topic of living space per capita. Here is the graphic. It clearly shows that at least a larger part of the average living space per capita is likely due to the increasing proportion of single households, especially older singles.

Here there are even many more. In our settlement, >30% of the houses (yes, exactly, those from 1.2M upwards for the plot) are occupied by exactly one person. The settlement was built from 1960, many had children between 1970-1980, who have long since left the house and the husband has died. Now the grandmother lives on 150-250m² of living space. That is the case in every third house here. People only move out feet first here.

Here, you only move out feet first.

Their good right, as I think...

Their right, I think...

I just wanted to say that this is how it is and who can afford to live here. It was asked where families can live – in 30% of the houses, definitely not.

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?