Goldknopf speaks (Walla system!)
The Designated Minister of Construction, Chairman of Torah Judaism Yitzhak Goldknopf said yesterday (Thursday) that he rejects the claims that there is a housing crisis in Israel. In a discussion at the local government conference of Walla! and 103FM, Goldknopf was asked about the issue of the housing crisis and said that "they talk to me all the time about a crisis , I didn't know the Ministry of Housing before this, so I don't know that there is a crisis." He also added that he "sees that they are building."
Young couples, who are experiencing the housing crisis firsthand, shared with Walla their frustration due to Goldknopf's statement. "The statement simply shows how much The designated government cares about the housing crisis, they put someone who doesn't know that there is a crisis at all," said Ben Vifit, 35 and 37 years old from Hod Hasharon. "This is a direct continuation of people being disconnected from reality, which caused the crisis in the first place.
A direct continuation of disdain and lies towards the working citizens, who are trying to get an apartment thanks to hard work.
Not really surprising because this is what we got in all the previous governments.
Ben Vifit Mahod Hasharon (photo: courtesy of the photographers)
Mor and Roi, 34 and 31 years old from Givatayim, also shared their feelings.
"The minister's statement is really disconnected - he ignores the apartment prices that are getting more and more expensive every month, and not only in the center, but in the whole country. With each passing day, we move away from the option of buying a house," said Roi.
Mor continued his words and added: "To think that building more apartments is the solution is naive. The problem is much more complex, we both work in the center, and maybe my field of employment could be in other places in Israel, but Roy has no other options. Therefore, the residence must be in one From the cities in Gush Dan. Construction in the Golan Heights, in Judea and Samaria, or in the Negev - doesn't really help us."
"Even if we were to choose to live in the periphery and work in the center, the infrastructure and transportation do not allow it," Roi explained, "the traffic jams are getting worse every day, and public transportation is not efficient enough to compensate for them."
Moore agreed with his words and shared that "Every day we fantasize about what our house will look like, and dream of the day when we don't have to depend on landlords who raise the rent at an unreasonable rate for a couple with their first child."
Roy continued and said that another statement in Goldknopf's words was not to his liking.
"He said that we should go into the office and learn the things. The crisis in Israel has existed for years, we have been warned about it. We don't have time to wait for him to learn the ropes of the profession."
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"We don't have time to wait for him to learn the ropes of the profession."
Goldknopf (Photo: Askaf)
"Not only is there a problem, it's the problem with the news," says Inbal Yodfat Na'eman from Haifa. "Another minister who made another disconnected statement.
He probably lives in a parallel world, because in terms of housing the situation is so disheartening that there is a lot of talk about it among friends.
About the fact that rents and apartment prices are rising in an engineering column.
He doesn't understand what it's like to raise children in today's world, in a rental market that's really scary.
My partner and I work and it's not enough for anything and nothing.
Life is one constant jingle.
I took another job this year and it's just to survive because we barely make it through the month.
There is nothing to talk about saving for an apartment."
Inbal, a landscape architect, and her partner of ten years, an architect by training, are academics who graduated from the Technion who work full-time and are parents to a six-year-old boy and a two-and-a-half-year-old girl. "We pay 4,700 shekels for kindergarten for the two children, Rent at a hysterical bargain another NIS 4,500.
That's NIS 9,200 from the net even before we bought bread and milk."
Inbal Yofat Naaman and the children (photo: courtesy of the family)
Inbal also added on the topic of rent and said: "My mother is sixty years old and she also lives in rent. It's a repeating cycle, instead of saving for the apartment, you spend what you earn on rent and the prices just go up and up. With us, it went up by NIS 1,000 in the last renewal. Every moment the landlord can come and say that he wants to marry some boy and that he needs to evacuate. It happened with good friends."
The inability to dream of an apartment has an effect not only on the bank account, but also on the mood.
"This matter of housing concerns us every day. It is clear that we think about it and worry about it. The issue of housing overshadows everything and the feeling is that there is no positive horizon at all for our lives. There is no hope. Even if I save for a decade it will not help anything because the prices only go up more and more.
Maybe if we took the deposits from after the army and national service and instead of studying buy a small apartment it would be different.
But what was, was, and you also have to learn.
I know there are those who say go live in Afula, but what about working in Afula?
Will we drive two hours in each direction in traffic?
Where there are cheap apartments, this means that there is no work and there are no efficient ways to get to it.
The truth is that I would love to get out of Haifa.
We checked all the options.
Living in the suburbs is more expensive.
For example, because you need two vehicles.
In Haifa, in our neighborhood, we will need 3 million for a decent apartment.
In the city as a whole, it's a million - a million and a half shekels.
And how can you pay back eight thousand a month?" added Inbal.
Meir, a young man from Ashkelon, also shared his difficulty in dealing with the housing crisis. "All couples have a problem buying an apartment, without help from parents or Haitik salaries we will not be able to buy an apartment. This is not possible when there is a housing crisis," he said.
"We must lower the housing prices and monitor the rental prices because young couples cannot afford to live without help - not to buy, not to rent. All salaries go on rent."
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