Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Maybe I might have to pay 10,000 euros in property tax for my house for 5 years like in the USA. Or there will be a burden equalization with a state-imposed forced mortgage on real estate. No one can exclude that anymore.

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Many people live alone or as a couple in relatively large houses in old age. Worn down is, by the way, not only a matter of taste (the tiles from 1970 are just as out of fashion today as those from 2020 will be in 2070), but above all also a matter of condition. Such a house simply regularly costs money for maintenance. You can save on it for a few years without everything falling apart immediately, but then you end up with a large backlog of renovations. That’s what I mean by worn down. Timely in this case would be that you hand over the house in a reasonable condition.

And yes, part of the problem is that you don’t just give away a house because you’re attached to it. That is completely okay. But if we don’t want to keep building new houses constantly, we have to think about how to sensibly deal with such houses in which the residents no longer even see the upper floor. In my opinion, this is not only related to sentimentalities about one’s own house but also because there are hardly any good alternatives for such people. One only wants to go to a nursing home when there is no other way, and city apartments with mini-balconies are not a real alternative to a house with a garden.

If we as a society want older houses not to be torn down but used and if we don’t want villages to keep expanding on the outskirts, then we also have to think about a somewhat efficient distribution of the available living space and consider what prevents us from achieving this. By the way, I don’t really have a good answer to this question either ;)