Un mercato abitativo rotto sta guidando la disuguaglianza in tutta Europa e alimentano l’estrema destra
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/broken-housing-market-inequality-europe-far-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
di AlexandrTheTolerable
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And the expats are to blaim!!
I think NIMBYism is the cause of expensive housing. The far right are NIMBYs in a different way
Oh that’ll bring house prices down.
Be angry, whatever. Don’t be fucking stupid though.
God, i hate regulations
Yeah, so what’s new…? We have to move at the end of the year, and we are already looking for a new place. The last two we watched had 2 couples per viewing, 8 slots, 2 days. The competition is fierce… here people even raise the prices by offering more as to be selected. It is honestly insane. Not to mention with the new law, and regulations properties are being sold so fewer are left in the system. I can’t wait for the moment we would be buying something, and never having to deal with the Dutch rental system ever again.
This is very true. Housing is one of those essential things.
When people lack the essentials, they get angry and that brings no good.
Can see here in Norway that the young are voting far right. Normally, young voters start at the left side.
Then gradually shift to the right as they age.
But these days the young er so fed up they start right at extreme right wing politics.
When you combine this with an aging population who also go right.
We are about to have an crazy time ahead of us. Where things only will get worse as right wing politics dominates. The other essentials we have, that are protected today. Will go on the free market, and we will have it even worse.
Time to do like we did after WW2. Government planned housing that gets built en masse. Capitalism just sucks building enough housing in our cities. Time to fix that.
Wealth inequality across the world is driving far right popularity. many countries from Japan to Ireland, India to Italy. It’s a global trend. Tax the rich and make life better
NIMBYs, Regulation, Net Zero and Stamp Duty (last 2 are UK specific) are to blame
I watched a great short video on this a while back.
Key points are that more credit does not solve the problem, but better housing designs might.
https://youtu.be/dcbjWGj3jBk
Funny thing is, the housing market is in the hands of the right lobby and has been for a long time.
Should probably start building housing then, and getting rid of restrictions that artificially limit the amount of housing that can be built.
Why is being “labelled” far right a bad thing ?
Easy, just subsidise demand and implement rent control /s
Flip the NIMBYs off. Simplify and accelerate licencing procedures, allow more high-density construction and replace property taxes with a land value tax.
Then the far right can lie and position themselves to do jack shit for the working class while sucking up to billionaires and making the economy worse
Heh. Just treat housing like the basic necessity it is – same as water, food, shelter, healthcare. Ban residential housing speculation and price gouging. Or at least give first-time buyers as much preferential credit as possible.
I don’t mind family-to-family or person-to-person sales. But lately I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff like: “Company X, acting on behalf of a Chinese/US/Russian investment fund and owner of a residential estate in [Y], has signed a letting agreement with a real estate agent.”
Next thing you know, that agent is subdividing the houses into single-bed rentals and charging a thousand euro per bed.
Here I go again …
1997 to 2008 the UK (Labour government).
– Record low NHS (healthcare) wait times.
– Record low NHS (healthcare) unsatisfaction rate.
– Record low unemployment rate.
– Record low homelessness.
– Record low violent crime.
– Record low inflation rate.
– Record low child poverty.
– Record low pension poverty.
The 2008 Great Recession happened and rather than understand this was a global problem enough people voted for the UK Conservative Party in 2010. We got austerity & Brexit. Both have made us Brits £ thousands per year poorer.
Most people vote with vibes and tribalism. There’s nothing more deep about it. But we like to pretend there is because the reality is too bleak.
So legalize the mass construction of housing.
“Problems exist, therefore the people who don’t know how to solve any problems are gaining momentum”
The capitalists could do it scotch free as well because not one single boomer complained.
In France, 40% the immigrants live in social housing, often in already overcriwded metropolis
Hundreds of thousands settle in every year.
Migration is one of the reasons housing is so expensive.
A long article which carefully avoids mentioning NIMBYs, government restrictions on housebuilding, and price controls; which cause the housing shortage. She even [opposed plans to allow more building](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/planning-policy-housing-crisis-east-london-flats-residents-affordable-home).
From the genius who wrote “[Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters want a united party more than ever](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leader-result-win-victory-momentum-supporters-united-party-celebrating-gloating-a7327711.html)” whilst her Corbynista colleagues were promoting splinter groups, crank-left movements, and the Brighton Independence Party. Followed by articles like “[Jeremy Corbyn is going to win the next election](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-momentum-festival-the-world-transformed-corbyn-will-win-a7965776.html)”.
Never believe a Kirsty Major article, and never trust anybody who shares Kirsty Major articles.
The housing market isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as it’s supposed to. The problem is that if your goal is actually supplying adequate housing to everyone markets are the wrong tool for the job. The housing market doesn’t need to be fixed it needs to be abolished.
People doing all this mental gymnastics to explain the rise of the far right really annoys me. It would be shit if I could no longer afford rent but it won’t make me hate Jews or black people. The rise of the far right is the fault of the far right. Throw them in jail and stop making excuses for their existence.
Nobody talks about the socio-economic situation in the Middle East and how that fuels extremism. We just bomb them and move on