This is a product of the EU's free movement and with that whilst the German people have a decline in birthrate the migrant population has not and as such any natural rise and organic growth in people has mushroomed.
On the flip side were these people move from leaves voids and some area's of the EU have become over-crowded and other parts are becoming ghost towns.
Still not everybody can look out the same port window, yet the EU free movement allows it and takes not into account the impacts and disparity of the members countries in the free movement aspect.
WIth that the German solution is not a solution, it will just create a privileged group who have a rent controlled place over those who can not get one at all.
10 years down the line for Berlin, it will be worse as they will shuift the price discrimination into one of space and with that, 10 people to a room hotspots and illegal housing will only grow.
When you have a supply and demand problem, the outcome is simple, but if you handicap that you just create a backlog of problem that piles up and in this case shifts from cost to supply or lack of and does nothing to address that from any angle.
Yes, this is going to be a problem, but will be seen as good by the people in the short term with shortsighted vision.
Do you have some numbers to back up your claim of immigrants being the major force behind the shortage? I could imagine it simply being movers within Germany. People are leaving the country for hyped metropolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Berlin whilst not best data as does not give a cronological breakdown by demographic. Though you can see from historical growth and current demographic that it is not organic migration from within the country and if anything more the opposite.
I know that has been the case in London and whilst no rent controls we have all construction over a certain numebr of houses/flats (mostly flats) must be social housing/cheap. So it gets down to sneaky ways to play the figures.
But more people means more demand and when the ethnic demographic is declining in those places and yet the population is increasing then yes it is a very large factor.
Now the real issue and again very much tied into this would be companies love cheap labour so any way to increase access will be pushed with the political clout companies sadly have. This means wages get lower and that is the real issue.
How so, well if wages do not increase and demand for housing does then you get situations in which we get rent controls being introduced and whilst they seem good. They are address an effect and not the problem and that is the wages being kept low artificialy and that is done via increased access to labour that will price fight each other.
So one extra demand upon housing driving up prices is also a extra choice for jobs and driving down wages and with that we get hot-spot area's that need such intervention, sadly not the root cause, though that is not a simple fix.
Could also say the demise of the unions also played a large part in enabling a work environment and culture that allows exploitation of workers, wage wise. not everybody works at google or the like and with that many middle to low skilled jobs been driven down and semi-skilled jobs in which they would train people, why bother, just use high skilled people on low skilled wages, plenty to pick from.
On the flip side were these people move from leaves voids and some area's of the EU have become over-crowded and other parts are becoming ghost towns.
Still not everybody can look out the same port window, yet the EU free movement allows it and takes not into account the impacts and disparity of the members countries in the free movement aspect.
WIth that the German solution is not a solution, it will just create a privileged group who have a rent controlled place over those who can not get one at all.
10 years down the line for Berlin, it will be worse as they will shuift the price discrimination into one of space and with that, 10 people to a room hotspots and illegal housing will only grow.
When you have a supply and demand problem, the outcome is simple, but if you handicap that you just create a backlog of problem that piles up and in this case shifts from cost to supply or lack of and does nothing to address that from any angle.
Yes, this is going to be a problem, but will be seen as good by the people in the short term with shortsighted vision.