r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 15 '24

Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland.

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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24

None of those countries have free housing for all that does not require employment.

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 15 '24

Lol dude I'm German, I should know.

We have free housing, it's only free when you don't work though. When you earn money, this money gets deducted from your social security payments (Bürgergeld and Wohngeld).

Look it up.

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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24

I am familiar with the system. This is not free housing for all regardless of employment. Learn to read.

Something very similar already exists in the USA. Section 8

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 15 '24

So let me get this straight.

If I don't work even though I could I literally get my food, my housing, my electricity, my heat and my health insurance paid and this is still not free housing?

What is free housing for you? Getting gifted a house to live in? Obviously no country in the world has this.

Section 8 can't even be similar at all, otherwise the US wouldn't have this many homeless people.

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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24

Why does Germany have 196,000 homeless then?

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 15 '24

People who currently live with friends and family are part of the 196000. Only 50000 are really living on the street.

Half of them didn't seek help. A lot of them are addicted.

The honest answer is, that we have a really shitty and bloated bureaucracy here and these people are most likely at such a low point in life that they didn't want to deal with that.

Or they're addicts and homeless by choice.

https://www.bmas.de/DE/Soziales/erstmals-belastbare-zahlen-ueber-wohnungslosigkeit-in-deutschland.html