Broke in Berlin – The city risks repeating history with its housing proposals

Seems to be trend with a lot of the major cities. Renting shouldn't be the answer to overpriced-AF housing. Where I'm from, it's not uncommon to pay around or over 1/2 of one's salary for rent for a 1-room studio. How can people on non-IT salaries survive, I have literally 0 idea, and that's extremely scary to me.

> A city that used to be cheap, when compared with other metropolises, is now prohibitively expensive.

It's really not. Even within Germany, Berlin is a cheap city to live in. Rent is (still far, I'd say) below the other major cities. Restaurants, non-chain grocery stores are generally cheaper. Berlin just used to be _crazy_ cheap, and now it's just cheap.

> East Germany was a potent example of what happens when expropriation and rent control are made the basis of housing policy; and yet, only 30 years later, it is quite likely to be repeated. A return to housing allocation by political criteria, such as loyalty or connections to a party hack, will become the order of the day.

I suppose it’s time for another generation to learn the glory of socialism.