Who in Berlin Looking for an apartment, it is usually not easy. People with below -average incomes have particularly low prospects. This emerges from the living space requirements of the responsible Senate administration, which is available to the German Press Agency. The “Berliner Morgenpost” had initially reported.
Average earners can therefore only afford around every fourth apartment (27.8 percent), households with an income of 60 percent of the middle monthly budget net income only every twentieth apartment (4.8 percent). The situation is different for the inventory rents: Here, the vast majority of the apartments are rented at a price that is affordable for normal earners.
“Strongly tense housing market”
“The big difference in the affordability of existing apartments and apartments in the event of re -letting is a typical indicator of a currently strongly tense housing market,” it says.
In the evaluation, the average income is the basis for determining whether an apartment is affordable. An apartment is considered affordable if the net rent is up to 27 percent of the middle household net income. The middle budget net income (median) in 2023 was an average of 2,575 euros. So there were as many incomes about it as among them. In the event of one-person households, it was 1,800 euros, for four- and multi-person households 4,525 euros.
Several tenant groups are particularly difficult: The supply rate for students is still low, with barrier-reduced, barrier-free or barrier-free living space there is a supply gap of 57,000 apartments, and further capacities are necessary for the accommodation for women affected by violence, the report says.
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