All subsequent lines will justify a rough title....

What I will write down, is specially worth to mention in our country and even in southern and eastern Europe. But I guess, this is happening to many other countries all over the world.

All talk about young people (well....they are not so young any more....) is usually the plucking of empty straw. Slovenian youth (in this case, we are talking about the age of about thirty-five years, this is a kind of boundary, when the things in life show their dark side ) are in serious housing problems. This is for them - if they do not have wealthy parents - a bigger and more insoluble problem than getting a regular job. They still get a job, they can not afford housing because they can not enter the housing market. The economy is booming with growing data in the construction sector, but this country is very different from the comparable ones: it does not build housing and does not invest in it, does not have a serious housing policy, nor does it reduce the resulting backlog, some of the least efficient urban housing funds create an impression , that something is going on - but does not, because the state for this 25 years since the distribution of former social housing ... nothing really works. Cities can not replace the state and its housing policy.

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Not only this: if they are already creditworthy to buy an apartment, it means literally living for an apartment. Prices are disproportionately high in terms of wages. The backlog is so horrific that even if they were to build 5000 apartments a year and would be managed by the state (at all levels of the state) as a rent fund, we would see the effect in ten years or so. And because that is the case, no politicians are involved in this project - because once the mandate ends, the effects will not be known yet. That's why they do not care. However, it is also because most politicians are wealthy enough to buy their own homes. They do not even see this problem.

Economy is flourishing - our salaries should rise

Companies expect that their tax burdens will be reduced due to the economic downturn. Employees expect that their salaries will rise as a result of economic growth. And if the surplus would prefer to deal with this acute problem? So if they actually start to create new municipal, state and possibly cooperative housing stock funds, should they begin to promote solidarity building that reduces prices in order to bring them closer to a reasonable, accessible threshold? This problem should be addressed urgently. For years we have been listening to reports on how exemplary this is now being done in Finland, now in Austria or Canada. But nothing happens. Make the measure of success the availability of rentals and other housing, not GDP! It would have turned out that we are where we are so reluctant to see: among eastern European countries, which have much more broken down the social state than Slovenia. We can talk about child allowance, accessible education, about guaranteed minimum wages, but if we give the other side of the scales the inaccessibility of housing, we immediately lose all the advantage.

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The state also does nothing to stop the growth of real estate prices from tourism. It does not matter how it affects young people. Because higher prices prove the country's supposed performance, right? As this is known for GDP. But this is at the same time a central problem for young people. Not only can they not buy apartments - they live in rented apartments of physical owners, with very rigid rights, unrivaled with tenants' rights, for example in Austria. This is totally unsustainable, something unacceptable for 2017. Renting apartments as an economic activity is not known at all - this is the afternoon craft of the owners

Due to the shortage of housing, today this is a business where profits are on the level of profits of drug trafficking,

if I express that very roughly. In Slovenia, capital does not have to work hard to increase, housing construction has exceptional markups, every square meter built in an average dwelling can be sold for a multiple - because it is a conjuncture, demand has returned with all the force, and the housing is not even For those who have money (or they have parents who have money). The rest in the housing market have nothing to look for. They can only be subcontractors, and the situation is getting worse for them or buyers of apartments with stagnation prices. We have not been subject to taxation either by owners of several properties or by imposing a serious property tax - which is completely incomprehensible.

But without the doubt, those who are profiting from apartments do not do this at the expense of the state (if they think it), but at the expense of all those who pay incredibly high rents (without serious rights and completely without relief), and high Housing prices. In fact, we should adopt a law on correcting injustices for younger citizens - because the absence of a serious housing policy in this country simply has been going on for too long.