Yes just kick out the poor from the cities that are the center of their life: where they lived for their whole life, where friends and family live, where their job is, where they are active in clubs, where there are jobs and cultural offers.
Once you can't pay your rent and apply for subsidies, naturally we should see where the compromise is.
Otherwise you will not help yourself landing in the situation where X can fit in a city comfortably, but 10*X people consider the particular city the center of their life. What do we do?
It's well inside of my control to demand that my taxes are not wasted on subsidies going directly to rent-seeking landlords in already economically overheated areas.
I would prefer they go to underdeveloped areas and give more economic effect. This means that people asking for subsidies should be ready to shift away from the core.
Who said money should buy you the right to a life with strong social bonds?
Some things, including the ones mentioned above, should not be on the market.
Augmented social bounds with economic ones.
Germany is traditionally a country with low personal wealth, low homeownership rates. On the other hand renting is relatively cheap. Most people simply cannot afford to buy property. Already in Nürnberg, which is the second biggest metropolitan area in Bavaria after Munich where the housing prices are around half of that of Munich people with normal wages struggle to be able to acquire a home.
So basically you are working like an ant, but with grasshopper's security[0]? Maybe it's time to change that?
> On the other hand renting is relatively cheap.
Not anymore now that winter is here!
0. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fables_(La_Fontaine,_tr._Wrig...
On the the US’s historical economic strengths was the ease with which people could move in order to find work. One major influence in the US is economic slowdown of the past decade or so comes from peoples inability to move to find work
Can you see a problem here?
I also see the value in pop 13 in california (for residences, not commercial) at the same time I see its problems.
Few solutions are effective (nor problems soluble) when cast in black and white.
Is that more fair?
Now I can either be poor in my home town (no good jobs) or poor in a big city, where my wage is largely consumed by high taxes and rent. Why do other people deserve a subsidized house but I don't? I want more disposable income too.
800 Euros is quite a lot for rent.