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Gent is in Belgium and not in the Randstad. The randstad is a major part of the Netherlands but it isn't the majority. >55% lives outside of the randstad.

Why this red white flag with the Netherlands ? The flag is red white blue ...

Na imagine the was just talking to a wall

They did receive money , medal was an extra

Stop giving black people free housing just because they are black. It is really harming our society. White people know what is happening.

Evict everyone and allow people in based on income not race.

Ah yes. The Belgrade Metro, which they will build 4 years after 20 years after 9 years after 11 years after 2 years after 100 years after 7 years-

Orban sabotage Europe 😮

This is absolutely false, not sure what makes you think North Americans think Poland isn’t in Europe. In fact, I bet you’d get smoked by an average American middle schooler in Geoguessr.

Thank you for covering this! Public transport has been one of the worst in the world in the past 15 years, since a lack of funding and lack of development. The metro will only loosen traffic so much, because the planned lines do not really correspond to the city's needs and don't really go into traffic-dense areas as much as they need to to be functional. For example, the bus lines 74 and 72 operate only 7 buses in total, but are some of the most used lines in the city, so in rush hour in particular, it is sometimes so full you cannot even enter the bus. The buses in general are awfully unmaintained and the tram lines for the most part use janky old yugoslav trams with no cooling or heating. Same goes for the buses. You are lucky to encounter one with an A/C. Although the city did buy new Mercedes and Setra buses, they were put on lines like 607, 608 and 860MV, 804, 324, a.k.a. buses that go from the center to some ditch on the outskirts of the city.

So helpful!

China is doing in Hungary what they've done in many African countries. They will pour millions possibly billions into the country. In the end Hungary will end up in debt and China will extort Hungary for their own agenda.

Overground Monorail/Hängebahn instead?

Thanks for video!

Great video, I did not known about prozorro. I guess it translates to window(prozor in croatian) in english

tram system was already declining before ussr collapsed mainly because of metro was expanding some parts where tram lines were or close by. but there were still some small expansions of tram lines. but when 90s hit and economic decline,barely any electricity, old trams that need it to be replaced slowly lines where closed. after the ross revolution georgia become better economically.but the new government didn’t care about the trams and in 2006 dec 4 ended tram operations. in 2010 same government that ended tram system wanted to build new tram line that would have cost 143 million euros but the new government cancelled the project in 2013 because it was too expensive

China EV full of issues. My friends in China have full regret of the EV being forces to them to be bought by their government. All of them prefer the western EV brand esp Tesla, Rivian, Ford, Mercedes or at least Korean/Japanese if not western brand. Chinese EV design is not artistic and reliable.

2025 is the german goal of VW for 20k and 2027 is the goal to establish the entry model.

Most of them are very ugly,not like the pictures you show. Antiparochi,brought in by Karamanlis,ruined Athens

Wrongly pronounced

6:13 it's not the type of emigration you think of. Of course they will all return at one point.

We spent a month in Belgrade and they DESPERATELY need a metro. The bus system works, but it's woefully over extended.

it's a fake brick made of foam for an april fools joke that hilariously worked. look how easy they pick it up with 3 fingers

The darts knew what was up. They flew straight from fear of what would happen if they didnt..

I love Athens awesome great explainer on why its such a lovely city. thanks for putting it together! 🙌 As a greek from Cyprus where we also have many πολυκατοικίες, i should point out that it's pronounced “Pol-i-kat-i-KEE-A”. oi is an EE (i) sound. Diphthongs pronounced “ee” as in “cheese” are: ει, οι, υι and vowels are η, υ, ι. All these had varying phonetic pronunciation in ancient Greek to give a specific tone to the word pronounced, according to the object of the word. After thousands of years, they have the same pronunciation but with significant exceptions.

Great video! It's such a great idea for homeowners to work with a developer to build a taller building and end up with 2 brand new units instead of just the one old unit they had before. Then they can rent out the second unit for income or give it to their parents or children. I heard the term for this is antiparochi. Maybe you said this word in the video but I missed it. I believe Turkey copied this model too and it allowed their cities to grow very quickly without becoming much more expensive. We 100% should do this in the United States. It's a win-win for everyone involved.

I think the Athens model whereby current residents are guaranteed apartments in the new development is the *exact* policy we need to alleviate “gentrification/displacement fears.

My mom's from Samos, Greece. I've been getting her into urbanism and she would really appreciate this video (she's across the country and not good with computers so I'll tell her about it).

3:36 Unrelated, but that system is really holding India back. Farms are minuscule in size, so the country’s industrialization is much slower as so many people still work in agriculture.

Stuff like this makes me question whether the collapse of the Soviet Union was the right thing to happen

We owned 3 apartments in Bucharest, then after 2000 my parents sold them all for 40000$ to move to Canada... Worst mistake in their lives.

Good video, I never knew any of this about Romania.

Home is BS. Home means being far from the city and all the amenities. Romania is a country with a very developed rural culture and living in the countryside is part of their national identity, but let's not exaggerate. There are two other options that are also unattainable for Americans. Owning an apartment in a multi-family building. This option is much more popular in Europe and these buildings are built so that living in them is actually comfortable and hassle-free. Another option is not owning an apartment, but renting a municipal apartment. This is an option that is very popular in Vienna or cities in Sweden. It is also incredibly financially beneficial because it usually constitutes a small percentage of the household budget. In Vienna, from what I remember, 60% of residents rent municipal apartments and the tax policy is such that owning your own apartment, and especially a house, is not worthy. So honestly this is not about owning an apartment or house, this is about how quality of life is achieved in different contrives. 5:00 It is mentioned here that Romania, unlike other countries, allowed the purchase of state-owned apartments for a reduced price. This is absolutely no exception. All the countries of the Eastern Bloc did exactly the same. In Poland, you could buy your apartment that belonged to the state for 5-10% of its value after the fall of communism. Almost everyone did it. Now in Poland we don't really know what to do because developer margins are up to 40% so whoever buys a new apartment feeds the dragon. The government would like to do something about it, but pouring money into the system will only make the dragon fatter as usually it works in socialism. I think the Romania is heading to the same problem or it is facing it now.

best analisis iv seen so far on this topic, real great video, my parents bought theyr apartment 80sq m in a 100k center town with 8k in the 90s, now its worth 100k, plus they build theyr own house on the country side 100sqm, worth 60k, both make together 3k euros a month in ro salary, no mortgage, did this only with work in blue collar jobs, and tbh, the equivalent of luxury in the west of what they have, is a bout 1 mil dollars, plus added bonus of tons of disposable income, and we are the one less fortunate due to a lot of money lost on health issues and car accidents, most over here have easaly 500k assets on ro market value and mil dollar busineses, the idots that stole the country did one thing right out of many wrongs, which was to allow romanians to own theyr houses if they worked , which is really not that much considering what industry we had and how most was sold for scraps, when if modernized, retehchnologized, and eatablishing new suplly chains to new markets would have easily have made romania be today on par with germany in terms of economic industrial development

Soviet microdistric vs usa suburbia

even now 92% of Russia owns their own home vs the United States which is only 64% and 36% rents

The Prima Casa program is described vaguely. The subsidy is in the form of loan guarantees so that first time buyers do not need to post extra collateral or bring a huge downpayment for the house. This was because traditionally the downpayment could be as large as 30% or 40%, necessitating a separate loan. The minimum today is 15%. The program has since split into two branches - one is the old Prima Casa, which is for old stock housing, covering only 70 000 euro loans. The other is for new housing (<5 years old) and covers up to 140.000 euro loans. It ends up being a forms of hidden subsidy to developers, as this enables people to borrow more to buy newer homes, finally increasing the differential between old homes (often more centrally located, with better amenities) and new homes (often peripheral, with fewer amenities).

You're making it sound like what the communists did was good but you are minimizing the price. You mention how they bulldozed people's homes to build apartment blocks only briefly but this was generations of people that had their homes taken away and forced to move in an apartment with no other compensation. You also don't mention that what Romanians got were not homes but concrete shells where at least once a week there was no electricity, no water. Hot water and heating was available just a few hours a day, only 4 hours of TV per day. The homes you mentioned were not given based on merit but nepotism, bribes and stupid criteria. An unmarried doctor, regardless how much he worked, earned or inherited from his parents, would not be able to get a 3 bedroom apartment, especially if his grandparents were owners when communism came. But a unskilled laborer with 2 kids and a salary that could barely pay for anything... 4 bedroom apartment on a very small monthly payment. Don't make communism sound romantic, it killed a lot of people and it created societies where people had no motivation to learn, work and improve. This is why it failed, and the "success" you mention, came at a very big cost. People suffered in the 80, so that Ceausescu would pay off the country dept and make bad investments in Africa, only for us to borrow back money in the 90s to buy everything we lacked, including the cheap homes you mention.

Why is bro so close to the mic?😰

Interesting facts: People who tried to buy property in the 90's were terrified they could not afford it since the economy was in shambles but ironically hyperinflation helped them out immensely since they took loans from the banks for huge amounts with fixed rates but due to hyperinflation in 2 years they could pay their entire apartment for the price of one monthly salary. 5 lei was worth 50000 lei but the contract stipulated you had to pay the fixed amount of 5 lei :)

While this maybe an asset or even a place to call home. The more important question is would somebody buy it.

As a Romanian I am happy for the best policy that came out post communist collapse: The protection of the housing market from speculators and the right for every citizen to own property. I am proud to own my home from the age of 26 and I'm happy knowing that I will also inherit property as well from my parents.

Homeownership rate is about 90% in China.

Homeownership among US Australia and Canada is 66%. Homeownership among many eastern European countries is 80% or above. Homeownership among many Asian countries is above 84% like Vietnam India Singapore Taiwan, Indoesia. Southern European Countries it is about 75% like in italy or Spain or Greece.

Facts about China Home ownership China has achieved the “Chines Dream” of homeownership and transitioned to an ultra-ownership society within a very short span of less than three decades. In much of the second half of twentieth century, China was a mass public rental society with private homeownership accounting for less than 30% (Huang 2004). Housing was considered a social welfare benefits provided with heavy subsidies by the socialist government and public employers, and private housing and homeownership were discouraged. However, since the 1990s, China has launched housing reforms to privatize and marketize its housing system, as part of the market transition. In addition to privatizing existing public housing and ending the provision of subsidized rental housing, private housing development and homeownership have been fervently encouraged (State Council 1998). As a result, homeownership has skyrocketed, reaching 85% in 2010 nationwide (70% in cities) and more than 90% in 2017 (87% in urban and 96% in rural China) (Yi and Huang 2014; Clark et al. 2019). China now is one of the countries with the highest rate of homeownership in the world. Multiple home ownership is also rising rapidly, reaching 20% and higher than many developed nations (Huang and Yi 2011; Huang et al. 2020). This rapid and pervasive change is particularly impressive and in sharp contrast to the recent decline in homeownership and the emergence of “generation rent” in the West (Forrest et al. 2012; Clark 2019; Richard 2018).

An acre is about 63 times 63 m or about 70x70 yards. Most common suburban lot sizes are a 1/4 acre if they were even that large.

28% of land in the continental United States is owned by the federal government. We should get to own a piece of that at a below market value price.

It was April fools joke. Do some research .