The ideal future? Where we have a place to live!

Overall, our civilization is in blooming; people start businesses, invent, start companies, and grow their money. But what about us, young people? The availability of housing is currently already extremely low. Everyone wants to have their own apartment or house, but how to get the money for it? A young person who has barely graduated does not have enough money for this. 
  
There are only 3 options. Take out a mortgage, which we must pay off for decades. Rent a flat. And the last option, which is the most common, live with your parents. 
  
Every young person wants to live alone, become independent and make a career in what they enjoy. If you're lucky enough to be able to live with your family for a while, you can start saving, but you will still have to wait a few years before getting your own apartment. And what about young people who did not grow up with their family, but in foster care for example? They have to help themselves.  
They will have to rent an apartment to have a place to live, but the rent will cut into their budget like crazy. And looking at today's household costs... 
  
Solution? We have to build more. The cities are getting crowded, so we will have to more and more start building in the countryside. If we don't start building more new apartments and houses now, property prices will go up even more and will be unaffordable in 2040. Another possible solution is to support young people with buying real estate, for example with housing subsidies, which can support young and honest people to get started in life. 
  
As an architecture student, I am very interested in the housing topic and this problem will also affect me in a few years. I also want to live by myself, but in today's conditions, I will have to save for several more years. We should change this, let's give young people the option of affordable housing. 
  
Europe, build new houses! 

 

Feeling

We are not doing enough to decrease the prices of housing. If we don’t change anything now, in the future the prices of housing will be much higher, and the availability will be less.

Influence

As a student I don’t have any influence on the prices of housing. Prices are set by real estate offices, and we have no option or whatsoever to influence it. But I think, if we bring it to the attention of people and discuss about it amongst young people, we might be able to change something. 
 

 

Updated on Maandag, 05/09/2022