In the air, in the trailer or on the water: Berlin’s inventive when it comes to alternative and affordable Housing. Well so, means Closing our columnist Gero and calls the Senate should learn from it.
It is not known whether the residential toilet is a original Berlin invention. Like the Sandman or the frying-pan cake. Anyway, this is the smallest possible living unit, usually a Mini-one-room apartment in Berlin is very popular. Earlier it was reserved for the chronically strapped students. To come out as the cheapest way to have a roof over the head. In the meantime, the residential toilet is also in other sociological layers growing in popularity.
Only the house beautiful is to be filled
The House: Not much more space than here on this image.
Large families or Refugees, all of them less and less square meters. Not because Cuddling is suddenly become to the Berlin Royal discipline. Rather, because they have to. Because the Live in the living room the bathroom is the last exit before the the way in community accommodations, or under bridges.
Berlin is a city of Renters. 87 percent of homes are rented. The ownership rate is 13 percent, half as high as the national average. The city is in the rent dough and in the number of missing flats lace. Already, there are 125.000 apartments to little. And it gets worse: Five times more people come to Berlin as the apartments are being built.
What is the Senate doing about it? Good Question! Further in the Text. The Berlin can’t get to you. Thank God! And has great ideas. As an Alternative for the living room to the bathroom, he has dough cultured Living – on-wheels-single-handedly and without the state. In the North-East of the city, in Pankow, for example, there is a small trailer village. For 3000 Euro you get a ten square meters of colorful construction trailer. However, the lease is still added to the city. A hundred people live here. For the children there is a perpetual adventure holiday. But also for the parents, a dream. Only the house is to occupy a beautiful, like – nostalgic voted in their weak moments admit.
More than 100 people live in this trailer in the North of Berlin
Life in the “Spree:publication”
Nice also the pirate is Living in the Rummelsburger Bay. There, where well-to-do citizens of Berlin have a rest at the weekend from the professional stress. Ok, this is not necessarily the Problem of the pirates. You have created a floating Utopia, the “Spree:publik”. It stands for the freedom of living. Goes without saying that your members are vehemently against gentrification and Mietwucher approach. Boats and rafts will have you tied to a fortified castle in the middle of the Bay. There you life with great enthusiasm, but without the permission Deck.
Living in a tree house: This here is more likely to be those with very simple design
A Senate study has found that the Rummelsburger Bay is for 1200 new homes well, of course, in the high-price segment. This would be the. First, however, the luck of the pirates is: the project of floating houses, “floating lofts” was sunk by the court, even before the first plank was nailed.
Life in the air
Necessity makes inventive. But the Berlin entrepreneur Kolja Stegemann was also without necessity. He has built a tree house In the green area around the Berlin district of Zehlendorf: 28 square feet in a dizzy height. With a fitted kitchen and a rain shower. Although there is no ringing, but at least a letter box. Now this is a business model and can be rented. But in this Form there is no Option for gentrification victims. However, as it would be with the tree house light?
Alternative Housing: Our columnist Gero Closing looks to the Berlin Senate on the train
The so-called “housing project days invited” to exchange self-organized forms of living in Berlin. Who goes to the site www.experimentdays.de of Berlin is a Mecca of the living Creative. They live in makeshift mini-homes, old schools or abandoned industrial ruins. It’s time for you to make, from the many ideas for a Single viable living options for Many. Hey senators, spits finally in the hands and is doing what! Otherwise, the Detention on the tree house.
Recently, the Berliner Morgenpost reported that the Senate wool to build 32 new Refugee housing in modular construction. Service Life Of 50 Years. In the small print I read: you should also be available to other users openly. Hopefully that’s not all, what comes to the Senate on the topic of “alternative Living”.