A study has revealed a housing crisis in Germany. The number of homeless people in Germany has risen by 150 percent since 2014 to 860,000 last year, half of them refugees. According to the study, migration may be one of the reasons, but the real reasons seem deeper, according to the study.
According to the website of the weekly "Die Zeit" German, the number of people who do not have a home in Germany in 2016 about 860 thousand, about half of them refugees.
The paper, based on a study by a specialist association, said the figure was 250,000 in 2010 and then rose to 335,000 in 2014. The homeless are people who do not have a permanent home and live in temporary shelters.
According to the German news agency DPA, the number of displaced persons has risen by one third since 2014 to 52,000 in 2016. The government's statistics forecast that the number of homeless people in 2018 may reach 1.2 Million.
Another study, dating back to June, showed a severe housing crisis in Germany and rising prices even outside large population blocs.
According to a study by the Prognos Consulting Institute, there is a housing problem in 138 cities and departments in Germany, and middle-income families are finding it increasingly difficult to find apartments.
According to the study, "the phenomenon of housing shortage is clearly beyond cities and large population blocs." The authors of the study said that there are seven cities where middle-income families can not get an apartment of 70 square meters and that these families have to search for apartments less than 70 meters. These cities are Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart.
According to the study's experts, middle-class families spend 35 percent of their income on apartment rents, including heating costs. Experts noted that the rate of rent of a 77-square-meter apartment in Germany is 759 euros.
Real estate brokers exploit the housing crisis to obtain large sums of refugees so that they can get an apartment. In some cases, leasing agencies are engaged in exploitative and illegal activities, and a number of Syrians seeking housing in Germany have been victims of illegal housekeepers who operate in secret .
The situation is exacerbated by the housing crisis in the large cities that are in high demand. The Syrian refugee offers the broker a large amount and does not care to achieve his goals. He is living in a suitable place, like the cities of Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg or its suburbs. Vocational training, work and proximity to his compatriots living in Germany.