Wifo boss Felbermayr criticises housing aid

Wifo boss Felbermayr criticises housing aid

The head of the economic research institute complained that the subsidy once again uses the “watering can” and would further fuel inflation.

Help with housing costs instead of rent brakes: Felbermayr criticises

The Greens were unable to assert themselves against the ÖVP with their demand for a rent brake; as a compromise, they agreed on one-off payments. Economist Gabriel Felbermayr has now criticized the fact that these would fuel inflation.

Wifo boss Felbermayr criticises housing aid

Wifo CEO Gabriel Felbermayr reacted with rejection to the housing aid presented by the government yesterday. The measure will further fuel inflation instead of slowing down the “inflation adjustment dynamic,” the economist criticized in the “Ö1 Morning Journal.” He saw the rent brake, which failed in recent negotiations, as a missed opportunity. Economics Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP), meanwhile, defended the subsidy.

Felbermayr criticises housing aid: “Drives prices up in the end”

VIENNA. Wifo boss Gabriel Felbermayr reacted with rejection to the housing aid presented by the government yesterday.

Rents - Wifo boss Felbermayr criticises housing aid

Wifo CEO Gabriel Felbermayr reacted with rejection to the housing aid presented by the government yesterday. The measure will further fuel inflation, said the economist in the “Ö1 Morning Journal” on Thursday. However, it is high time to get out of the “automatic inflation adjustment system.” Felbermayr criticised that a corresponding start would have been possible with a price brake on benchmark rents. The head of the economic research institut…

WIFO boss criticizes housing subsidy instead of rent brake

Gabriel Felbermayr is in favour of suspending indexing to inflation.