The housing shortage in Switzerland is getting worse, at least in 2022, due to increased immigration. However, the impact of Ukrainian refugees on the housing market will be marginal. Last year, 76,727 Ukrainians fled to Switzerland, of which 2,952 arrived in the city of Zurich alone. They are now more likely to enter the normal rental housing market. However, it will remain with a few.
“Very few refugees can afford the rents in the local market,” says Carlo Sommaruga (64), SP Councilor and President of the Tenants’ Association. According to Sommaruga, most refugees stay in housing estates or with their Swiss families. Nonprofit housing is also not an option for many refugees – especially since waiting lists for such apartments are often long and taxpayers are given preferential treatment here.
The fact that 15 percent of Ukrainians who fled to Switzerland have already found work should not change this. However, Lukas Rieder, press spokesperson for the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), is surprised by the high value. Most of the refugees in Switzerland today are women and children.
Balancing work and raising children is already a huge challenge for single mothers under normal circumstances. “Also, language is a big barrier. Although many Ukrainians speak English, to work in Switzerland you must speak a national language,” says Rieder.
Therefore, it is not refugees who make living space scarce in Switzerland. It is much larger next to the decline in housing projects due to the impact of immigration and individualization from the EU region. On the one hand, more and more Swiss people want to live alone or divorce. As a result, the living area per capita is increasing every year. Currently, a single person uses 46 square meters of living space. On the other hand, projecting of living spaces has decreased in recent years due to the constantly increasing real estate prices and sometimes high vacancy rates in the past. This is the result of a recent study by Raiffeisen.
Source :Blick
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