Families still refuse to build

This is a 38-percent drop in comparison with the same period last year. The number of construction permits also decreased by nine percent to 23,000 at the end of May. This phenomenon is rather different from what Gazeta Wyborcza predicted last year, saying that more and more Polish families prefer to buy houses rather than flats in blocks, and that this trend is likely to continue. According to analysts, the increase in VAT on construction materials, a lack of spatial planning and traffic jams on access roads to the city center are preventing Poles from building new homes.