German government ministers on Wednesday backed a plan to address homelessness by building more affordable housing and overhauling emergency shelters. The strategy calls for giving all homeless people in the country access to housing by 2030, but details remain vague. The plan also calls for new standards for accommodation in emergency shelters that would give people more privacy, and steps to ensure that all homeless people have health insurance. Germany has been struggling with a major housing
Germany's Housing Minister Klara Geywitz says that she expects 265,000 flats to be completed nationwide in the coming year, as parts of the country face a housing shortage. Speaking to the Rheinische Post newspaper, the politician from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats said the figures were from a new forecast by the German Institute for Economic Research. The German government has set the target of building 400,000 flats a year in the fight against rising rents. Given the current econom
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