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Chancellor Angela Merkel tackles housing shortfall, tenancy hikes
Deutsche Welle ^ | 05.26.2018 | ipj/jm (AFP, Reuter, epd)

Posted on 05/26/2018 2:00:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany “urgently needed” extra affordable housing and used her weekly video podcast Saturday to reel off a series of steps — outlined last February as her coalition took shape — to get them built before the next federal elections in 2021.

Simultaneously Saturday, the board chairman of Germany’s BA Labor Agency, Detlef Scheele, told Stuttgart-based SWR public broadcasting that affordable housing had become the “burning topic of our times.”

More and more people were seeking second jobs to supplement their incomes, especially in Germany’s urban hubs, said Scheele

Last year alone, Berlin property prices soared 20.5 percent, prompting some10,000 protesters to demand remedies last month, and squatting by activists in two long-vacant buildings. […]

Merkel told podcast viewers that €2 billion of her coalition’s agenda package would flow as a “massive” injection into social welfare housing projects run by Germany’s 16 federal states.

The situation in Germany’s metropolitan hubs would “hopefully relax somewhat,” she predicted. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Germany; Government
KEYWORDS: affordablehousing; aliens; dhimmitude; eurabia; eussr; hijrah; merkel; rapefugees; refujihadi; rop; socialism; wasistlos

1 posted on 05/26/2018 2:00:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How many manufactured homes are there in Germany?


2 posted on 05/26/2018 2:03:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Ve need more avvordable housink! Und more Moose-limb refugees to use it!”


3 posted on 05/26/2018 2:03:17 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

Gosh, I’m scratching my head here...why would Germany be running out of housing??
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4 posted on 05/26/2018 2:07:58 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Olog-hai

Carbrini-Green, here Deutschland comes!

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/516999/cabrini-green-and-chicagos-public-housing-disaster/


5 posted on 05/26/2018 2:08:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Olog-hai
Didn't the German government evict germans from their homes to make space for "refugees"?

6 posted on 05/26/2018 2:13:52 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Olog-hai

This pin-headed, jihadi-enabling commie is well on the way to doing more permanent to Germany than all the bombs dropped by the Allies in WWII.


7 posted on 05/26/2018 2:44:24 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: Olog-hai

drain even more of the taxpayers’ money from them...to house even more IslamoNazi invaders... so they can destroy Deutschland from within


8 posted on 05/26/2018 3:13:40 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

Just imagine...after 100 years of attempts by Germans to destroy Europe finally an *East* German has hit on the formula for success.


9 posted on 05/26/2018 3:47:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Marxism of one form (so-called “national” socialism) or another (the East’s Stalinism) is just as deadly.


10 posted on 05/26/2018 7:58:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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