#10: Can Germany fix its housing shortage?

After the war, East and West embarked on massive building programmes. A “Plattenbau” housing project in Magdeburg, GDR. photo: railasia, CC BY-SA 2.0

As anyone who’s tried to rent an apartment in a large German city can tell you, the housing shortage is one of the pressing issues of our time.

Hundreds of people might show up to a single apartment viewing…