Supply and demand. Finland doesn’t have a housing shortage and housing as a human right helps.
I think they’re more available with a struggling economy and people emigrate. Immigrants will leave especially if they can find better work opportunities elsewhere.
Also Finland has a lot of apartments and a lot of people live by themselves. Which I find very interesting.
yksvaan on
There’s also lack of capital, people can’t afford to buy or don’t want to get into ridiculous amounts of debt.
Housing in Finland is kinda interesting since most of the country is basically empty fields and forest but taxation and costs basically force people to live in small apartments and miniature houses with neighbour’s window 5m away. So a lot of houses are dirt cheap because nobody wants them.
Life in rural areas has become very expensive compared to some decades ago and extra regulation and ever increasing taxes just make it worse.
MagnificentCat on
This is a good thing!
High house prices don’t solve society’s problems
aither0meuw on
Based
kranttula on
We have this thing call Orpo/Purran far right Government
Leroydestroy on
People keep leaving Finland because the social system of which it was built upon is falling apart rapidly.
The answer was “get more heads in to count” (higher immigration rates) but then a high percentage of migrants waltz into the welfare benefits.
Finland has a major identity crisis.
On one hand, it claims to be a “high tech/innovation” driven country and on the other it spends most of its time promoting tourism to the North (and to Asia especially via the government owned Finnair).
When Finland creates a unicorn company, the people see quickly that they will be taxed 50% + of their money and quickly leave elsewhere to save that money.
Because of this “equality” principle and socialist style, there is little reason for anyone who has high expectations of their careers to do it in Finland.
…and it’s true that most Finns have such a low expectation of themselves – “as long as we have bread on the table, life is ok, there are others who have less than us”….
…which is noble, and beautiful yes…
But that doesn’t promote growth in the population.
It’s also a key contributing factor to why Finns are “the most happiest” people globally.
People still hear stories of hardship from the winter war and reflect those times to present. It has a large baring of the collective mindset.
15 years ago Finland had the highest ranked education system and healthcare system.
Today they barely rank in the top 20.
The socialism style is not working, because the services don’t work as they used to and any migrants coming have zero effective “integration” program or other, so form their own communities and are handed welfare that promotes the “we look after everyone” mentality of socialism and doesn’t promote job seeking and earning for yourself…giving back to the system.
AI is removing a certain line of work that immigrants used to be able to walk into and there we see the highest unemployment rate in Europe.
The answer?
Something radical.
Be bold, be brave and require new comers to have certain “future proof skills” (AI, programming etc) in order to keep a place in Finland.
AIM to have the general population as the highest AI/programming literacy in Europe (if not the world).
Reinvest in the innovation and support more “basic entrepreneurship” lessening the tax burden in the smaller entrepreneurs so the spending power shifts to become better.
…that’s a start at least
Marutks on
How much does a house cost in Finland?
SlummiPorvari on
This is excellent thing. It hurts everyone but the scalper if prices are so high the renters can be extorted. It also hurts the local economy because prices become higher and Internet becomes even more preferable.
Home owners are somewhat safe. They won’t get as much money as they sell their home but also the new one will be cheaper.
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Supply and demand. Finland doesn’t have a housing shortage and housing as a human right helps.
I think they’re more available with a struggling economy and people emigrate. Immigrants will leave especially if they can find better work opportunities elsewhere.
Also Finland has a lot of apartments and a lot of people live by themselves. Which I find very interesting.
There’s also lack of capital, people can’t afford to buy or don’t want to get into ridiculous amounts of debt.
Housing in Finland is kinda interesting since most of the country is basically empty fields and forest but taxation and costs basically force people to live in small apartments and miniature houses with neighbour’s window 5m away. So a lot of houses are dirt cheap because nobody wants them.
Life in rural areas has become very expensive compared to some decades ago and extra regulation and ever increasing taxes just make it worse.
This is a good thing!
High house prices don’t solve society’s problems
Based
We have this thing call Orpo/Purran far right Government
People keep leaving Finland because the social system of which it was built upon is falling apart rapidly.
The answer was “get more heads in to count” (higher immigration rates) but then a high percentage of migrants waltz into the welfare benefits.
Finland has a major identity crisis.
On one hand, it claims to be a “high tech/innovation” driven country and on the other it spends most of its time promoting tourism to the North (and to Asia especially via the government owned Finnair).
When Finland creates a unicorn company, the people see quickly that they will be taxed 50% + of their money and quickly leave elsewhere to save that money.
Because of this “equality” principle and socialist style, there is little reason for anyone who has high expectations of their careers to do it in Finland.
…and it’s true that most Finns have such a low expectation of themselves – “as long as we have bread on the table, life is ok, there are others who have less than us”….
…which is noble, and beautiful yes…
But that doesn’t promote growth in the population.
It’s also a key contributing factor to why Finns are “the most happiest” people globally.
People still hear stories of hardship from the winter war and reflect those times to present. It has a large baring of the collective mindset.
15 years ago Finland had the highest ranked education system and healthcare system.
Today they barely rank in the top 20.
The socialism style is not working, because the services don’t work as they used to and any migrants coming have zero effective “integration” program or other, so form their own communities and are handed welfare that promotes the “we look after everyone” mentality of socialism and doesn’t promote job seeking and earning for yourself…giving back to the system.
AI is removing a certain line of work that immigrants used to be able to walk into and there we see the highest unemployment rate in Europe.
The answer?
Something radical.
Be bold, be brave and require new comers to have certain “future proof skills” (AI, programming etc) in order to keep a place in Finland.
AIM to have the general population as the highest AI/programming literacy in Europe (if not the world).
Reinvest in the innovation and support more “basic entrepreneurship” lessening the tax burden in the smaller entrepreneurs so the spending power shifts to become better.
…that’s a start at least
How much does a house cost in Finland?
This is excellent thing. It hurts everyone but the scalper if prices are so high the renters can be extorted. It also hurts the local economy because prices become higher and Internet becomes even more preferable.
Home owners are somewhat safe. They won’t get as much money as they sell their home but also the new one will be cheaper.