Tag: Housing
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Home ownership rate keeps decreasing as private living spaces become smaller
According to the latest NSO EU-SILC 2025 statistics, Malta’s home ownership rate continued to decline while the country’s housing stock kept shifting toward apartment-style living. The survey found that 4.7% of persons living in private households were living in overcrowded dwellings, up by one percentage point from EU-SILC 2024. Home ownership remained the most common…
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Labour’s new social contract: subsidising banks and the construction industry
Behind the blinking glimmer of free money, subsidies, and electoral pledges, the Labour Party continues to build a social contract where society’s wealth is increasingly being directed to the banking system and the construction industry. The latest proposals announced by the Prime Minister on interest-free loans may sound attractive to those who are struggling to…
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You have seen nothing yet
The Labour government doesn’t want to genuinely address the housing affordability crisis. The top=brass of the government and the party want to ensure to keep enriching themselves even further even if this means adding more fuel to Malta’s structural problems. Justice Minister Jonathan Attard is bragging that he went to a Shanghai property expo in…
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Repubblika calls for probe into Galdes’ €140,000 Gozo penthouse
Repubblika has expressed strong concern over a recent property purchase by Roderick Galdes, Minister responsible for social and affordable housing, who acquired a luxury penthouse in Gozo from developer Joseph Portelli for €140,000 – a price critics argue is far below what ordinary Maltese families would pay for a similar property today. At a time…
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Average age when Maltese youth leave their parents’ house is 29 years old
According to the latest Eurostat figures the average age of a Maltese person leaving their parents’ house is 29 years old. The statistic has remained stable in Malta during the past few years. European youths which leave their parents’ house earliest are the Swedes and the Finns who leave their parents’ house at the age…
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The massive economic cost of the housing crisis
There is plenty of discussion about the human and social aspect of the ongoing housing crisis in Malta. The young generations are facing extreme challenges to obtain housing and start families and this is also negatively impacting the birth-rate. However there is also another cold and calculating aspect of this crisis which is currently being…
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Government launches affordable housing scheme with the Church
The Labour government yesterday announced its long-planned affordable housing scheme in partnership with the Church. Led by the government, the newly established Church–State entity, the Foundation for Affordable Accommodation, has launched a scheme that will see the construction of affordable housing units in Ħal Kirkop, Fgura, St Julian’s, and Marsaskala. The scheme was announced by the…
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ADPD Leader says landlords have to maintain their properties: highlights housing crisis
In a public address posted on social media, ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci addressed the housing crisis and highlighted several issues that the government should urgently tackle. Among her proposals, Sandra Guaci is arguing in favour of a “passport for buildings” classifying their health, and for the government to build more public housing estates to address…
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The Nationalist Party proposes the construction of affordable housing as house prices keep soaring
The Nationalist held a press conference yesterday, announcing its serious concern for the rise in property prices and among several proposals propose the construction of new affordable housing. The Nationalist Party also proposed a raft of subsidies and tax incentives very similar to what the Labour Party is currently implementing, Latest NSO Statistics show that…
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This is the Facebook feed of Roderick Galdes: anger and complaints
The Facebook feed of the Minister for Social Housing is replete with comments of angry Labour voters saying that they are only being provided with social housing during election campaign while others complain of remaining in the waiting list. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
