My parents bought a house at 28. I'm 31, earn decent money, and can't even afford to rent alone.
This isn't a personal failure story.
In the last 15 years, house prices across Europe rose 60%. Rents went up 30%.
Know what didn't go up 60%? Salaries.
Teachers can't afford to live in the cities where they teach. Nurses commute 2 hours because rent near hospitals is impossible. Firefighters share flats in their 30s.
The EU itself admits there's a €275 billion annual investment gap in housing. 2.25 million homes are missing right now.
And yet governments keep calling it a "personal finance problem."
It isn't. It never was.
This is what Our Finocracy exists for — to call out the system, not the individual.
What's your housing reality in Europe?
Posted Jun 27, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC
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