It's one of those numbers thrown around page two stories and never gets much public attention in Germany.
Right now today....there are 860,000 Germans who are homeless....based on a German federal government study. The expectation is, by the end of 2018....it'll be near 1.2-million Germans.
Why? As much as people talk positive about jobs in Germany and the low unemployment level....there's a segment of society who are at the bottom of the wage table and unable to procure housing with what is paid out to them at the end. This is particularly true in major metropolitan areas like Frankfurt, Essen, or Hamburg.
With 82,000,000 Germans existing, the discussion is that one-percent of the population don't have a home. And the number is growing.
Free housing coming out of this? The real solution is to examine the wage situation and determine a different relationship in regard to the payscale. Somewhere down the line, this whole massive topic of affordable housing will have to come up as well.
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