This arises from the European Statistical Service of Eurostat. In countries where salaries similar to German share housing costs are significantly lower.
Many inhabitants of Germany have a feeling that life has become more expensive – that feeling is now and officially confirmed. The BSW Party (SAHRA WAGENKNECNECT) has asked the Federal Bureau of Statistics to process the European Statistical Agency data on the topic of housing costs.
The results arises that people in Germany spend on average every fourth euro to housing. Thus housing – in relation to income – almost nowhere in Europe so expensive as in Germany, criticizes BSW.
According to these data, the expenditures of people in Germany for rent or other housing costs, for example, in their own real estate, amounted to 24.5 percent of their income. It is 5.3 percentage points more than the average of the European Union. Persons who are vulnerable in poverty in Germany, on average, as much as 43.8 percent of their income consented to housing – so almost every other euro.
In France, Austria and the Netherlands, the apartment for the apartment are significantly lower. Especially low housing costs were recorded in Cyprus (11.4 percent), Malta (12.5 percent), Italy and Slovenia (by 13.6 percent).
Higher than in Germany, the average share of housing costs according to statistics for 2024. year in Denmark (26.3 percent) and especially in Greece (35.5 percent). The EU average is 19.2 percent, transmits SEEbiz.
“Housing in Germany is an impoverishment program for a large part of the population,” said the president of BSW Sahra Wagenknecht for the AFP news agency. “What in countries like France or Austria people spend significantly less about housing shows that it can be different,” she pointed out.
Wagennecht specifically requested the introduction of the upper boundary of rent at the national level, as well as the greater share of the non-profit sector in the housing market.
