Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Serious question: Do you have statistics on that? Like showing that there were phases in the last 30-40 years when construction costs decreased.

Anyway, as I already mentioned earlier in the thread, I find it hard to imagine that it will become cheaper again for the average home builder in the foreseeable future. Energy prices are rising; interest rates are rising; labor costs are rising.

If we compare the city of Nuremberg with Dresden, for example, the picture is confirmed.

While in Nuremberg a foreigner proportion of about 25 percent has established itself, in Dresden it is only 9 percent.
There is a housing shortage in Nuremberg, whereas in Dresden [we] are demolishing. As already described, demolition subsidized with significant tax funds.

The influx of migrants is largely limited to the western German metropolitan areas with their well-known housing problems. This exacerbates the problems even further.

In Halle an der Saale alone, 20,000 apartments stand vacant. There used to be housing control. That would be completely normal.

However, the population density of a region is also decisive. And here Nuremberg, with 2765 inhabitants per km², is significantly more densely populated than, for example, Dresden with only 1693 inhabitants per km².

Stuttgart, with 3040 inhabitants per km², has almost double the density of Dresden. Accordingly, the real estate market is also denser.
While a new single-family house has become almost impossible in Stuttgart, you can still build in Dresden almost carefree and relatively inexpensively.

But that’s just a thought. It’s also a question of quality of life.

Serious question: Do you have statistics on that? I mean those that show that in the last 30-40 years there were also phases when construction costs decreased.

Anyway, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I find it hard to imagine that it will become cheaper again for the average homebuilder in the foreseeable future. Energy prices are rising; interest rates are rising; labor costs are rising.

For a start, I recommend looking up the meaning of correlation and causation.
You can tell the craftsman in you. You simply never had any contact with scientific methods to research and present connections. That doesn't matter at all at the regulars' table.

In Germany, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of apartments stand empty. In East Germany, demolition premiums for living space are currently still being paid by the state as subsidies. And here, lots are being demolished.

From this perspective, I do not see the shortage of living space in Germany. People just need to be guided a little. Needs-based accommodation.
And when the state pays the rent, it also determines where it pays the rent.

And so both migrants and Hartz IV recipients and others all go to the large metropolitan areas. The nurse in Munich can’t find an apartment because an unemployed person lives near the hospital. To put it bluntly.

Rents in Berlin are soaring to boundless heights, and in Neustrelitz hundreds of apartments are being torn down. There simply is no housing regulation happening. The economy could have been directed into structurally weak areas. There is no Dax company anywhere in East Germany. But there are some in Munich.

If an offensive family policy had been pursued 30 years ago instead of mass immigration, we wouldn’t have a demographic problem today either. Because the German welfare state is not infinitely sustainable. The limits of those who create valuable work have long been reached through taxes and levies. Devaluation of savings and inflation do the rest.

And what was today’s urgent news headline from Focus? Inflation has surprisingly !!! fallen to 7.6 percent in June. That’s true too. The gasoline price has fallen.