There is currently a shortage of around 800,000 apartments, especially small apartments with a price range of six to ten euros net rent per square meter. “The housing crisis has worsened and this is hitting young people particularly hard,” says Lukas Siebenkotten, President of the German Tenants’ Association (DMB) The number of building permits for residential buildings in large parts of Germany has fallen by more than 50 percent compared to the previous year.
In Germany, sometimes seven people lived in a two-room apartment. For people at risk of poverty, it is even one in five. The DMB is part of the Housing Construction Association, which will present the study for Housing Construction Day 2024 on April 11th. The study authors warn of a “one-way street” in housing construction.. The housing shortage has continued to worsen. ‘There is something completely wrong,’ says the president of the tenants’ association. ’It doesn’t work without building.’