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haldean on June 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

At its peak (in the early 40s) it had 4.5M people living in it, and only has about 3.5M people living there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_population_statistics#/...

The city was built for a population bigger than its current population.

pantalaimon on June 28, 2018 [–]

Most of which was destroyed in WW2 and the urban redevelopment programs of the 60ies and 70ies.

Today we have a housing shortage and the fastest rent increase in Germany.

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