Hin und wieder sehe ich im Internet die folgenden zwei Arten von Nachrichten:
- In Deutschland mangelt es an Wohnraum (z Deutsche Immobilienkrise: „Wie ein Sechser im Lotto!“ aus den DW-Nachrichten im April dieses Jahres)
- In Deutschland mangelt es an qualifizierten ausländischen Arbeitskräften (z Warum kommen Fachkräfte aus Indien nach Deutschland? aus den DW-Nachrichten in diesem Monat)
Realistisch gesehen können Menschen nicht in ein Land ziehen, in dem es nicht genügend Wohnraum gibt. Ich habe gehört, dass Länder wie Kanada einen starken Anstieg der Mietpreise verzeichnen teilweise weil zu viele Ausländer eingeladen wurden, bevor neue Häuser gebaut wurden. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass das Gleiche auch in Deutschland passieren könnte.
Ich bin gespannt, wie Menschen, die in Deutschland leben (oder gelebt haben), über diese Dinge denken.
(Ich frage das nicht, weil ich mir Sorgen um die Zukunft Deutschlands mache. Ich lebe nicht einmal in Deutschland. Ich frage das nur aus Neugier.)
Germany has been facing a housing shortage, but it also has a growing need for skilled foreign workers
byu/military_press ingermany
Von military_press
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The word we are missing here is ‘cheap’.
Germany has plenty of houses and skilled workers but they are not cheap.
Everyone is looking for CHEAP workers and CHEAP houses.
any country would benefit from skilled workers moving there. but that’s not the majority of immigration that the west is facing right now. it’s mainly unskilled immigration. there needs to be more housing built in every western country but no country is doing it enough for various reasons.
Almost as if using land/housing as an investment instrument causes a pickle.
Can’t build more housing because that would push prices down and most people’s wealth is bound to houses.
Can’t grow because you need people and houses for that.
You are going to find this hilarious. One of the industries that is experiencing the most shortage is the one building houses.
It is not just housing but also the sheer weight of bureaucracy. People are queuing outside immigration offices 3-4 hours before opening time just to get an appointment in 3 months while being treated like shit by Frau Müller, not to mention them becoming illiterate as long as you drop an English word in there is definitely not going to help.
But yeah, womp womp – they are lacking skilled foreign workers 🥲
We lack housing, workers and energy.
Cheap, that is. Of course, there are nuances. E.g. in Bavaria we have an amount of teachers as never before. But because they are all women, and they dont want to work fulltime, we have a lack of teachers.
And housing is rather cheap in about 80% of the country. But not in the cities, especially the fancy ones.
There is a simple thing behind it. The way tax money is distributed is not really lending itself to solving the housing issue.
The local governments (city/village governments) don’t really get to keep a lot of the tax money generated by the people living there. They get a lot more money from businesses existing in their area.
Their share of the tax money from inhabitants is so low, it often isn’t even enough to pay for the infrastructure extensions they need to provide with increasing numbers of inhabitants. (Stuff like Schools, Kindergartens, Waterlines, etc.)
So a lot of these local governnents are not very inclined to write out a lot of land to be build on for housing. It is much better for them to instead have housing prices jump in the extremes, as that leads to wealthier people living in their governed areas and thus paying them more taxes for the same expense.
Nah, Germany does not actually want skilled foreign workers. Just look at how ABH treats those foreign workers.
Germany is facing a huge miss match between the workforce skills and the market demand.
I have about 15 empty older houses for sale and new developments in my small town. Several of these houses have been unowned since I bought one in 2018 and the one I bought was unowned for three years. Maybe it’s true for some bigger cities but there is plenty of housing and space to build
There is no skilled worker shortage. People who are skilled leave their fields because of bad pay and do something completely different, that pays better. For example medical assistants. They get better paid jobs in schools as teachers or in the industry, as sales experts. Same goes for electricians, who are lacking severly. You do find electricians easily when you want to pay the price for a real electrician. Now some might say, ok, there are too few of them so they are too expensive. But the situation is as follows: there are companies led by a skilled electrician who sends badly paid unskilled electricians to do the work and he cashes in. And there are skilled solo electricians who simply want to pay the rent or maybe even buy a house. Ask yourself who does the better job in the end, who costs more and who actually earns more. That’s the current situation.
And of course, the solo electrician does have to ask this price no one is willing to pay because of the biggest cost factor in his life: housing. The housing crisis is real. Germany’s population grows due to immigration each year in average of the size of a city like Wuppertal. This needs not only the housing of the size of Wuppertal, but also the infrastructure for this city. Medical services, civil services, you name it. Unfortunately most of these immigrants can provide neither. They often can’t even provide a job as cashier in a supermarket, as they are not educated at all. They can’t handle electric stoves, so how do you expect them to handle a register cash. They can’t do maths. They can’t speak German. It’s impossible.