Does the real estate market increasingly force more families to build?

But parasites who are simply lazy should not receive these.

You can't deny anyone basic security if Art.1 of the GG is to apply... who even decides on the parasite status?

and is not calculated based on emissions/100km...

Why not?

If I have the same tax rate whether I earn €1 or €1 million.

But then a high exemption threshold at the bottom and no contribution assessment ceiling at the top.

So the valuation bases are simply adjusted. There is a reason why many companies now have spelling programs where they first send their trainees...

I cannot disagree with that. But the reason for poor performance also does not lie in the state. Only the "processing".

We are drifting further and further off topic... The fact is that property or housing is still comparatively inexpensive here internationally. We are not a developing country. Land will also become more expensive the more people there are. The old property tax was already a disguised wealth tax. The new idea is crazy and the administrative effort would be enormous. I like Bavaria’s proposal. Simply tax by m2. With a multiplier for location. Undeveloped land should cost the same. This way, some people would part with a piece of land or develop it. Abolishing the property tax is unfortunately not realistic. But the state has actually already collected money on the purchase... Here, tenants have more rights and protection than anywhere else. Therefore, the home ownership rate is not problematic. The market is booming, interest rates are low, and many insist on wanting property at all costs. Because of all the regulations around building, it becomes even more expensive... Therefore, rents are also rising. But no one is forced to build by the current situation. In our area, more and more existing properties are being sold as the older generation passes away and the heirs have their main place of residence elsewhere. Often people with (Eastern European) migration background buy and renovate with a lot of personal effort and help from family. Often true “jewelry boxes” emerge this way. This is cheaper than building new. In cities the situation is of course more extreme. But that is the same everywhere.

The fact is that property or housing, seen internationally, is still comparatively affordable here.

In the city locations of the metropolitan regions, that is true. For the common people, however, there is basically nothing left. You don’t have to want international conditions here if they are not particularly good. But building a new single-family house in Germany or buying a used one is often more expensive than elsewhere. The reason is the quality. You don’t get wooden houses like in the USA here, nor shacks like in France where they still have single-glazed windows. As I said, people want solid construction here and that costs money. I’m not interested in frost flowers on the windows either – but no one has died from that yet. Germans live with a certain standard and that doesn’t come for free.

It starts with the development plan that mandates the hedge plants ...

Anyone who has been to the Philippines or similar places is glad that there are development plans in Germany. I am too. I can't imagine that you would like the chaos. Especially urban sprawl is a crime.

I’m not a fan of frost flowers on the windows either – but nobody has died from it yet.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that now. *shiver*

The demands for a solid house stem from a certain societal consensus. We want climate protection and thus energy efficiency. The younger generation also wants this, as seen in these student protests. More expensive houses as a consequence are then one of the not so obvious outcomes. I think it is good that we no longer have simply glazed apartments with coal stoves.

But building a single-family house has nothing to do with climate protection. It is a caress of the green psyche, nothing else.

And I do not see a social consensus either. It goes so far that politicians portray 150 years of established physics as wrong at the AfD, and in doing so, they are not unsuccessful in fishing for votes.