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Press release No. N 067 of 17 November 2022 10.5% of Germany's population lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2021
400,000 new dwellings, including 100,000 social dwellings, will be constructed every year to counteract the lack of affordable dwellings, according to Federal Government plans. Roughly 8.6% million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in …
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Press release No. N 054 of 26 August 2022 Housing costs: 10.7% of the population regarded as overburdened in 2021
For millions of people in Germany, the money spent on housing accounts for large part of their cost of living. Housing expenditure and rents in particular usually are fixed monthly costs with little nor no reduction potential. In 2021, housing costs …
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Press release No. 506 of 4 November 2021 8.5 million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2020
Activities outside the home were strongly limited for some periods in 2020 because of the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. This may have been particularly stressful for people living in dwellings that are considered as overcrowded by …
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Press release No. N 079 of 26 November 2020 6.4 million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2019
Activities outside the home have been strongly limited by the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. This can be particularly stressful for people living in overcrowded dwellings. In 2019, approximately 6.4 million people lived in such an …
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Press release No. 428 of 29 October 2020 14% of the population affected by excessive housing costs in 2019
In 2019, 11.4 million people in Germany were living in households faced with excessive housing costs. They represented about 14% of the total population. A household is overburdened by housing costs if more than 40% of its disposable income is spent …