#8: The homelessness crisis

And a deep dive into the plight of EU citizens sleeping on the streets in Germany

It was a ice-cold January day a few years ago. A man in a wheelchair was trying to cross Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße in Berlin-Mitte but one of the wheelchair’s front wheels was broken — so he was just turning in a circle. The man had no winter jacket, no shoes, bandaged feet. He obviously couldn’t walk. I managed to get him to my office a few metres away. We…