Older homeowners take a breath of their anger
« Nothing comes from nothing! » – Older homeowners take a breath of their anger
A long -term comparison shows that the home ownership ratio of young families drops as it rises under retirees. The latter feel attacked – and ensure a heated debate in the comment columns.
On Saturday reported Ch media About the age structure of apartment and homeowners in Switzerland. The figures compiled by Bank Raiffeisen based on data from the Federal Office for Statistics show that the home ownership rate in the age category of 36 to 45-year-olds has dropped by 7.8 percentage points between 2010 and 2023. On the other hand, the statistics show an increase of 8 percentage points for people over 85.
In general, it can be said: People in professional life have their own four walls in a long -term comparison. However, the residential property ratio increases from the pension. A Raiffeisen expert assessed the numbers. Among other things, he said: “The older generations were lucky that they could still buy their real estate at relatively affordable prices. Today this is no longer possible for the majority of young families. »
11,000 comments on Facebook
As can be seen, a number of pensioners feel attacked by these statistics, although in the article none of the older generation blamed that younger people have less property. On the portals of CH Media alone, against 120 readers spoke up. On the news portals of « Nau » and « View »the topic of it was 400 to 700. An absolute record should be the number of over 11,000 comments on the Facebook page of the «Blick» be.
This fund of reactions can be collected, which opinions are on the subject. Two votes on Facebook create particularly strong approval. One user wonders: «Could it be that the pensioners had to work first for their home? That is exactly the attitude today. You want everything others have, but you don’t want to do anything for it. »
Another reader writes: «Pensioners also worked on Saturdays, there were no holiday trips with family, new clothes for Christmas and the children worked during the school holidays. If pensioners have their own home or an apartment today, they deserve it with the hands of the work. Nothing comes from nothing! » – she received over 7000 likes.
The most popular comment on the portals of CH Media goes in the similar direction: «The pensioners were once young and had to work out their property and finance them by giving up. In addition, the interest rates, for example in the late 80s and early 90s, had increased to over 8 percent. Bought from because of favorable conditions … »
This article ensured the comments
Sometimes older semesters complain about age discrimination, only to accuse a whole generation of laziness on the same train. Part-time work, air travel, two cars, work-life balance: that didn’t exist in the past, so you could afford a house. «My parents didn’t have a car and are never on vacation. Work, giving up and economy have made your beautiful home possible », so an opinion with a lot of encouragement.
« I treat everyone to their house »
But there are also differentiated contributions. So many see that the prices for houses and apartments have risen extremely strongly in recent years: « Even someone with a decent wage cannot simply buy such a home. » In fact, houses and apartments are becoming more and more expensive. The reasons are known: The supply cannot keep up with the high demand, and the banks have tightened the conditions for the inclusion of a mortgage in recent years.
Politicians have also launched the latest statistics. The Basel GLP Grand Councilor Bülent Pekerman wants the Basel government to take on the topic. In a written request he wants to know aboutwhat knowledge the Basel administration has a generation -related imbalance. He floats moving incentives, for example when two older people continue to live in large apartments or single -family houses after moving their children. In addition, Pekerman would like to know what the government of exchange platforms does, in which older people with too much living space are brought together with younger people.
So there are efforts to defuse the generation conflict. A reader writes about the article: «I treat everyone to their house, which he has acquired with a lot of work. The boys’ work-life balance is always presented in such a way that the boys are simply lazy. » It is forgotten that one person generally worked per family and today one and a half, there is more vacation. In the past, there were simply different times that one could not compare one to one: « You shouldn’t harden the fronts. »
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