Thanks to Germany’s historic housing policy, it was part of the country’s self-image to be able to live in an affordable flat, regardless of income. But that has changed fundamentally. Today, particularly in large cities, there is a need for affordable housing again.
Act D deals with the question of why housing in Germany is becoming more and more expensive. When did our housing policy change fundamentally? For this purpose, the authors research the history, starting with the housing estate in the empire, the founding of the first housing cooperatives and the state-sponsored building of the mass housing of the Weimar Republic, the government measures against housing problems after the Second World War in East and West from suburbs and inner cities in the sixties and seventies to the deregulation and privatization of the 1990s and the effects of the liberalized financial markets since the turn of the century.
