Actual political serious discussion threadThe Dutch housing market crisis, and how to fix it.The housing market is WAY too regulated by the EU. I fucking hate the EU, Ursula van der Leyen can go flikkeren van een berg af.
It's such a simple problem with a simple solution; deregulate the market and leave the EU.
The average price of a house in my country is 502.000 euros, that's the fucking average house price. There are currently 450.000 households who are looking for another house or a new house, and we only have 50.000 houses available. Why? Because the Netherlands is way too regulated, too taxed, cucked by the EU and many other things.
Nitrogen regulations affect house market, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted: https://www.bouwendnederland.nl/nieuws/algemeen/stikstof-zet-bouw-244000-woningen-op-slot-en-economische-schade-van-138-miljard-dreigtNitrogen and the housing market; https://housinglab.nl/en/nieuw-kabinet-opgelet-woningcrisis-vraagt-om-koersvast-beleid-en-structurele-keuzes/#:~:text=To%20address%20the%20housing%20shortage,long%2Dterm%20decisions%20are%20needed.
We are currently participating in an EU law where we have to abide by nitrogen levels in the soil, which is affected by industry. So if a company wants to build houses, they have to go through the niggerhell bureaucracy of the government. Around the early 2000s, they passed a law or program of sorts that wants the Netherlands to reduce nitrogen emissions into the soil, because it affects some plants who can't deal with it. Apparently diesel emissions and gasoline cause nitrogen levels to go to high levels through ammonia and nitrogen oxide, I'm not well read on how that works, but for sure it's not nesseccary in my opinion. So they had to get licenses from the government to build in areas designated as high risk for bad nitrogen levels.
In 2015 they passed another law that would allow for build permits in areas if you could prove future emissions would be reduced, or improve. But in 2019, because the court ruled that the government could no longer issue permits based on promises of future emission reductions, any project that emitted even a fraction of nitrogen during its construction or operational phase was forced to halt until it could prove zero environmental impact. So conventionally before COVID-19, they just cockblocked 80.000 build plans at once, and made it incredibly hard to build any building without going through shitty bureacracy and abiding by strict environmental laws.
+=What's picrel???Look at picrel, red is anywhere you cannot build new stuff unless you use some kind of magic. Orange is incredibly hard to build and strict, and yellow is difficult to get a permit. They made this map accordingly to the nitrogen levels of the soil, and the plants at live there.
ImmigrationImmigration is also a huge fucking problem. We currently have two million non-Western immigrants in our country. Deporting will ease demand. These fuckers contribute to nothing, most of them are an actual burden to our country's economy.
Huge tax burdenWe also have a 21% tax on every transaction of products, this literally affects the price of everything. While also taxing gasoline, diesel. Which most transportation relies on. Guess what's going to happen? PRICES WILL SKYROCKET, INFLATION WILL HAPPEN. What the fuck is the government even going to need a 21% tax on everything for? I want to order a pair of cotton shirts, I have to pay 21% extra for these. The truck that delivers that cotton shirt has to pay 21% extra on his gas, 21% on his truck maintanence. And the mechanic 21% extra for electricity, water, EVERYTHING.
We also have a 37% tax burden, and a 50% tax burden for those who earn 78.000 a year. Guess who earns 78.000 a year? People who own companies that build houses! You're going to be surprised the houses cost 502.000 average in my country? Then combined with a tax on diesel, gasoline, and every single transaction you make, then the shitty regulations, did I mention more taxes?
Natura2000, European Comission to preserve soil quality in areas.:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20231106IPR09026/nieuwe-regels-om-de-uitstoot-van-verontreinigende-stoffen-te-verminderen