According to a survey by SORA, 46.5 percent of respondents in Austria are afraid of the future. Many people are afraid that they can no longer afford a home. Only about one in ten people (twelve percent) think the government is doing enough to fight inflation.
The SORA Institute interviewed 1,006 people aged 15 and over across Austria on behalf of Volkshilfe. The fluctuation range is plus/minus 3.1 percent. Key results: Almost every second person (46.5 percent) is afraid of the future. In the income group up to 1,500 euros, more than two-thirds of respondents are already concerned that they can no longer afford a home. “People with low incomes and low education levels are the people we should be particularly concerned about,” said Volkshilfe president Ewald Sacher.
Volkshilfe director Erich Fenninger also spoke of a “change from a society of progress to a society of decline.” “It is not the joy of tomorrow, but the fear of it that prevails.” The wrong political decisions are being made in the present. According to Volkshilfe, long-term support is needed instead of one-off payments, ‘effective price regulation’ for the rental sector and higher subsidies for social housing.
Property tax respondents
Housing is “more than a basic need,” Fenninger says. About seven in ten respondents (73 percent) have a positive view of wealth taxes. Volkshilfe sometimes calls for a reform of social assistance, basic care for children and an increase in the net replacement rate for unemployment benefits to 70 percent.
The government must fight more against inflation. Only about one in ten respondents (twelve percent) think enough is being done to combat inflation in Austria. According to Sacher, poverty is also a threat to democracy. “People turn to those who present simple solutions (…). In Austria the path of justice has been definitively abandoned; people are feeling that more and more.”
Volkshilfe conducts representative surveys on social policy topics several times a year.
Source: Krone
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