I just don’t think it’s scapegoating. Scapegoating would be blaming refugees who make up a miniscule amount of the housing demand, or blaming moroccan/turkish people who have been here for >3 generations already. Which is what populist parties are saying.
The points mentioned in this article are about migrant workers, who are encouraged to come work here by the government and corporations, and parties are saying limiting that, will help the housing crisis a bit.
Their homes are usually stacked with matrasses, not uncommon a 3 bedroom home houses 8 migrant workers. Blaming them for the housing crisis is as much scapegoating as blaming foreign students. The reason there is a shortage is because the last 10 years the population has grown faster than the housing stock. The reason for that is bad policies, because the growth that happened was expected and enough houses would have been built if the government wanted to.
I just don’t think it’s scapegoating. Scapegoating would be blaming refugees who make up a miniscule amount of the housing demand, or blaming moroccan/turkish people who have been here for >3 generations already. Which is what populist parties are saying. The points mentioned in this article are about migrant workers, who are encouraged to come work here by the government and corporations, and parties are saying limiting that, will help the housing crisis a bit.
Their homes are usually stacked with matrasses, not uncommon a 3 bedroom home houses 8 migrant workers. Blaming them for the housing crisis is as much scapegoating as blaming foreign students. The reason there is a shortage is because the last 10 years the population has grown faster than the housing stock. The reason for that is bad policies, because the growth that happened was expected and enough houses would have been built if the government wanted to.