affordable housing experts estimate it would take well over a million units to meet demand and construction has lagged way behind rents are high and rising and says he's like munich. there was no queues housing shortage a century ago as well with math of overcrowding and terrible sanitary conditions in gloomy tenements as here in berlin. people often also worked in the spaces where they lived. the bauhaus movement was founded in one thousand nine hundred nineteen and soon came to champion a vision of society and design that was radically new even revolutionary it wanted to create good housing for everybody. to achieve that goal that developed standardize units and industrialized production to bring down costs. at the forefront of modernist architecture championed simple forms free of ornament large