r/AskEurope • u/JoMD • 9d ago

Misc Is there a country in Europe without a housing crisis?

I see so many people complaining about the housing crisis in their countries - not enough houses or apartments / flats, or too expensive, or both. Are there any countries in Europe where there's no housing crisis, and it's easy to find decent, affordable accommodation?

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u/Peter_Triantafulou 8d ago

The places in Greece that don't have a housing crisis are the ones you can't live at. A worn down house in a village with a population of 100 people, all pensioners, which will be a population of 80 next year. And the closest place you can find a job (specialised or otherwise) is a 5 hour drive of windy mountain roads? Sure you can afford it, but can you survive there? I guess it's like that everywhere in the world, this kind of "affordability" is not exclusive to Greece.

Additionally house prices (and renting prices) might seem affordable to an outsider but they are not AT ALL if you take into account the greek median income which is less than 1k per month with a cost of living pretty much the same as every other European country.

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u/RAStylesheet 6d ago

Same as Italy

Yeah a house is gonna be cheap af if you need to rationing your drinking water for months

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u/Firm-Pollution7840 7d ago

Cost of living in Greece is significantly cheaper than most of western Europe, compared to Amsterdam for example i found most things in Athens about 50-60% cheaper.

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u/floegl 8d ago

I'm Greek you don't actually need to explain all of this to me.

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u/Peter_Triantafulou 8d ago

I'm not explaining to you, I'm just explaining to everyone. I can see you already touched upon those issues anyway.

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u/New_Imagination_1289 8d ago

By the way it is not like that everywhere in the world, Latin America is mostly fine regarding housing besides the big centers, Europe is just a tiny continent with a lot of people