The Berlins Government recently introduced a new funding scheme for social housing to solve the housing crisis in the city. But the program doesn’t learnt from the failed social housing programms in the past…

This article based on a public discussion in 2014 and was written for and published in the magazin No. 1 of the initiative “Haben und Brauchen” (To Have and To Need). (deutsche Fassung des Textes: hier)

Old Wine in Old Wineskins. Notes on the Return of Social Housing

by Andrej Holm

Berlin has an aid programme for social housing again. Under the lovely title „Verwaltungsvorschriften für Weiterlesen (externer Link) →