Across the planet, the pandemic has caused overheating in real estate, fueling resentment among the middle classes, who face ever-increasing inequalities, wrote International mail in November 2021 as part of a dossier devoted to this theme.
However, last January, according to a survey carried out by BVA on behalf of the Social Union for Housing (USH), 81% of French people explained that they wanted the question of housing to occupy a more important place in the electoral campaign. . And 53% considered that the situation had not changed for 5 years.
Have they been heard by the presidential candidates? In recent months, several foreign newspapers, including the Guardian, have in any case underlined that the cost of living was at the heart of voters’ concerns. Noting in passing the huge share of incompressible expenses (including housing) in the household budget.
Before closely studying the candidates’ proposals, we thought it would be interesting to look for some reading keys by comparing the data concerning housing in France with those of its neighbors in the European Union. International mail has therefore studied those available for France, Germany, Denmark, Spain and Poland.
The criteria observed? The cost of housing in relation to household disposable income, the proportion of owners, that of social housing in the rental stock, the proportion of loan or rent arrears, insalubrity and the inability to maintain a correct temperature in a dwelling. But also the weight of rents in relation to the income of young people in several large European cities. Where we learn that it is less expensive to live in Brussels or Munich than in Paris or Helsinki…