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#10: Can Germany fix its housing shortage?

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Maurice Frank
Dec 14, 2025
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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…

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