Why Budapest’s buildings look like nobody take care about them?

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1. because nobody takes care about them

2. 1) because nobody takes care about them

   2) nobody has the money to renovate them

3. You can guess twice

4. Lack of money and/or lack of care.

5. Long therm thinking does not exist in hungary. Also noone cares about what is beyond their fence. Also nothing significant happens here without the involvement of EU or government money.

6. Obligatory “Because nobody takes care of them.”

7. because nobody takes care of them

8. It’s still a good building wdym. /s

9. It’s a reflection of the country

10. the government doesn’t care and the mayor lacks the funding to just start renovating private housing

11. The residents in the buildings usually don’t have enough money to put together for a full front renovation, the municipality doesn’t have funds for this either. Also some buildings are under heritage protection, which means you could only renovate them to their original state and that’d cost a lot more than just simply renovating.

12. No, but…

    No migration

    No gender

    No war

13. Isn’t this obvious? Whoever owns the building does not have the means to renovate, or does not have the use for the building.

14. It is because the Hungarian buildings are honest.

15. Soros, migrant, Brussel. Your welcome!

16. Most of these buildings are architecturally protected. To renovate them the costs are usually 5x-10x higher than for newer buildings.

17. The word you are searching for is **”take care of”**

18. 1. Lack of money
    2. They are usually under monument protection, which makes renovation prices go up a magnitude. Then goto 1.

19. What’s Budapest’s government? I’m not sure who owns those buildings but most of them are in a pretty bad state, even with visible bullet holes on some of them from WWII and 56. 

20. Bosnia maxxing

21. Thank you a lot for your answers guys
    Also, one more question: while we are looking at the evening on the city centre there is no lights on the all windows? Nobody lives in old buildings? Because, for example, in Stockholm they do live in old historical appartments

22. It is the owners’ responsibility to take care of their buildings. As the home ownership is above 90% here, and the people are poor as fuck, we simply cannot afford to renovate our buildings.

    There are some EU and goverment provided funds for renovation/modernisation, but most buildings don’t even meet the requirements to apply for these funds.

    These buildings are 100-200 years old, so they have many problems to take care of… Usually, these problems drain the funds of the buildings, so the owners need to apply for loans for the basic maintenance.

    The 80-100 years old old pipes, electric cables, chimneys, roof beams are prioritised before the facades in most of the cases. Becasue you can live in a well maintained ugly building, but you cannot live in a beautiful but dangerouse one…

23. It’s not a requirement. These are public houses. Only flats are owned by individuals or entities. There is a concept of a HOA in each building. They take care of common areas, trash, etc. But when it comes to maintenance, it’s considered an improvement and requires additional costs from the tenants. Most tenants would rather use their hard earned money to put gas in their cars, others on vacations. We don’t know. But since there are no laws or rules requiring upkeep, it gets neglected. At least that’s my understanding. Oh and if the building is owner occupied — that is if the apartment owners actually live in the building, they’re more likely to fix it.

24. because jóvanazúgy 😀

25. Especially old people would not allow for the increase of renovation fees. They don’t care because the building will only fall apart after their deaths.

26. Because we are proud of them. There is a dentistry, a lawyer office and 10 Airbnbs with danish luxury interior design inside making a ton of money, but who the fuck cares about the facade? Poor insulation? Poor space management? No problem. Or you want those modern ugly westener greyish glass boxes? You definetly don’t.

27. Obviously Gyurcsány’s fault. (And Brussels and Soros)

28. In most cases, these buildings are in private ownership, so the government has nothing to do with it.
    It’s Hungary, so the owner, of course, doesn’t have the necessary funds to renovate it.

    Also, there is no such financial support program to help the owner renovate the buildings.

29. They stole the tax money for these kinds of things.

30. After 1920 because the loss of previously availible good quality resourches apartment buildings were constructed from cheaper materials or wirh cheaper methods. Facades in praticular were made from lime mortar not stone. Compared to stone these facades are less resistant to weather, smog or artillery and gun fire(1956). These are also more difficult to maintain. Nowdays repairs are arranged by the residentials, owners and Its hard to find common ground with the expenses.

31. Because Orbán and his cohort steal ALL resources intended for the betterment of the country.

32. Because Orban snatched everyone’s pockets thus the lack of funds, the buildings reflect it really well + people usually dont care about them rotting.

33. Imagine if the chauvinistic government actually put money into making Budapest look badass like how Czechia, Poland and Romania are doing it.

    But no it goes into stadiums in villages with 700 residents

34. Bikóz vi ár veri púr and of course Gyurcsány

35. ALKALMATLAN – is the word you are looking for