a swiss like me described as the 50 nations 50 story. and 50 very personal tips on berlin's very best. good d.w. . answer damn is a top tourist attraction a delicate historical sites a laid back atmosphere each year the city hosts millions of visitors and those visitors need space space the locals are lacking. the nobel moments i sometimes think i'm never going to find some ways to live. i

just in the way today tony. apartments are hard to come by offers are rare and mostly unaffordable. you will quote after all you need to be rich if you want to get an apartment here every year on a house colma. about 1000000 residents have to share this limited living space and more and more are having to move out to great concrete blocks on the city's outskirts i know that i had to live under a bridge for a week or in volatile part on a bench. the housing crisis is spreading across europe. windy by vaught nose answered him east district like the back of her hand she's.

lived here for 20 years 1st as a student on a houseboat and then with her husband and children but now she's getting a divorce and she and her 2 sons need a new phone. book a big house. iraq bring this house here for 1500000 euros hale close it's very big 300 square metres. way too big for me. to feel when he has a well paid job and will soon also be receiving support from her ex-husband in theory she's well situated but the housing market is empty. it was here it's a great i don't know the price for this one yes i'm afraid it will be unaffordable to it's all from my over that buy but it is pretty so more even has a little garden author. also globe and see it's also if i see something while i'm walking around i immediately thought it's it's but most of the time it's already been rented out or it's way too expensive on the baby otherwise i would have found

something long ago holden and. wendy is hoping word of mouth will help her find a new place for now a friend is some lead in their apartment to her while they work abroad but not for much longer. like a military my boys were born and raised here. so now they go to school here to. it for yourself i'm very happy. it's one of the most beautiful areas in amsterdam to go. to vote and if you look at men oh my social my social contacts well most of them live here. if you've got here in the bureau and that's why i'd like to stay here too. but there's a lot of make a. temporary sublease agreements are common place the housing crisis turns entire lives upside down. one is one victim he's

a reluctant commuter the student lives in some dump one of amsterdam suburbs every day he bikes to his university for an hour then takes a ferry rain or shine he has no choice. but to get all that goes i've always felt this pull towards amsterdam i was born there and went to elementary school there it's days after that we moved away when you're from being but the mentality there of it the way of life and all the things you can do there you know it's so different and much more open to. his childhood home is close to his heart the only thing is most people from amsterdam can't afford to live in their own city. doesn't really feel frustrated and it's so frustrating that i need to take the ferry every day and i'm always at least an hour away from my friends on top of that i still live with my mother so

he's owned by them ordered those little. more than half the students in the netherlands still live with their parents did woman been right now i'm looking for an apartment that i can share with friends that we could split the rent of them with for the year good as it doesn't have to be big. it doesn't even have to be pretty just as long as it's here in the city somewhere the money. is in on saddam is. the university of amsterdam is bursting at it seems right now more than 100000 students are enrolled in the university's heavily compete for international students their tuition fees bring in more money. but there's no place for the students to live and the stress of looking for an apartment keeps them from their studies. i know that i had to live under a bridge for a week or in vondelpark on a bench he just kept his luggage in a storage. and yeah for a lot of us there come

a video is they've been camping so. the isis up prices are ridiculously high but the it's you got to you have to pay at least $6.00 or $700.00 euros for just a simple room it will mean says fairmont woman on a simple. news has been looking for 10 months he spends one or 2 hours each day he even pays 20 euros a month for a professional site to send him listings it helps him avoid scams he says. this when i was held in for the housing market is pretty lucrative and that attracts criminals so fucking in the sense that they create a web page where they pretend to offer an apartment so the don't even exist might have begun but if i don't know that i don't register on their page for a fee i'm being cheated in a bit they from the gone every 2nd website is a criminal website website. and speculation is making matters even worse everyone

names 3 reasons for the housing crisis the 1st amsterdam is a tourist magnet with nearly 17000000 overnight stays every year and the numbers are rising. tourists love the picturesque scenery and the relaxed atmosphere many owners prefer to rent to tourists limiting accommodation for locals and hotels pay her rent a sums for a building site even the universities are turning over a profit with prime real estate. on the 2nd cause breck's it many british firms have been moving to the netherlands and buying housing for their employees in bulk sometimes they privatized entire blocks last. investors like prince bandar jr are the 3rd reason the cousin of the dutch king is a real estate millionaire he owns more the. $100.00 just digits buildings in top

locations the only ones who could pay such a high rent are rich men adjourns and celebrities from abroad and they do. to them money is hardly an issue. this houseboat is for sale for 1500000 euros as a vacation getaway now it just needs a quick polish laugh. when i'm off to. read about how the 1st shred we. have to level for the things. we had to learn from. this morning so the kind of people that they for several clients are in europe and that's true for absolute evidence less we have a role. in europe accommodation is the highest expenditure in 11 european countries the price per square meter in urban areas rose so sharply in

the past year it has become virtually an affordable for the middle class. in amsterdam one square meter costs about $21.00 euro so london is in 1st place with 30 euros per square meter and in paris the most densely populated city in europe one square meter costs $25.00 euros. in rome and vienna pay an average of 14 year olds which makes madrid and berlin look comparatively inexpensive and just 11 euro has. a place to call home in amsterdam that's what mace copeland would like best he's feeling a place far from the city center in a suburb with good public transportation. and me and. i'm hoping to find a place here with 2 or 3 bedrooms are. made of africa i'm not sure if i can move i don't come here very often but i want to have a look. at the. for. i'm hoping my chances will be higher here

since the area isn't very popular here. on the command. the vastness of the washing machine in the hallways communal property all the furniture you see here is brand new oh yes. ok oh the kitchen and bathroom on you and i'm used. to that. $65.00 square metres on 2 floors all for an incredible $2600.00 euros at least may's got to come and have a look around most of the time he's not even invited to a viewing. and amahl is the problem in that i throw the book usually on the fact that i'm a student is a problem and for the 11 or to prefer families people who earn money as today. unfortunately students have a bad reputation for not handling their money well. over it and for disturbing the neighbors on a period of a 4 bit. but even if they split the costs may loose and his friends would still be

paying 870 year olds each that's way too much. now that is self so why in the apartment look nice but considering the neighborhood and how expensive the rent is on the ballot and that we'd be crazy to take a guy. here. for now he's better off staying with his family there he contributes 200 euros for living costs. the fact is i'm happy that he's still living here but i know that he's really preoccupied with all thoughts of moving out and i get it he's 20 years old he wants to do his own thing. but his circumstances are different than they were for her generation today living on your own in amsterdam is a luxury. the little diplomat goes more and more young people are choosing not to study. not only says that and able to but because they don't want to check out

housing loans sky high rents astronomical real estate prices and growing cities the housing market is going crazy and mrs chances of ever moving out are shrinking. as a result the suburbs have become boom towns in amsterdam southeast district many people from suriname have come to settle they are the ones who keep the city running as nurses as taxi and bus drivers and his hairdressers but the city has no affordable strings for them. c to. remain siemens has lived in amsterdam for 48 years now 67 he was able to find an inexpensive apartment 2 rooms a kitchen and bathroom about me and even nice neighbors. that's what i

used to look like that was on a trip with the church. ever since his son moved out he's been offering people in need somewhere to stay. you moved it to you it is safe and so and we all help each other out. and if you don't have a place to stay you will always be offered a bed and then i made sure to hold on to that mindset anyone with a problem you can come to me you. grow. i've had a woman from africa stay here. then 2 men from. then a man from the caribbean and now another one here from sara nom. steven bang a full is currently living with him. after suffering a stroke the 58 year old lost his job and couldn't pay the rent. and aid organization brought the 2 men together.

for now they're sharing the apartment until steven can find a place of his own he's been on the waiting list for subsidized housing for 7 years . in the netherlands offers the most subsidized housing in all of europe it makes up 30 percent of the market austria is proud of the 24 percent of subsidized housing that puts it in 2nd place in most other european countries is much lower. in germany it's only 4 percent and in portugal only 2. steven can do is wait and hope. my only other option is to stay in a homeless shelter but you'd have to have a screw loose to be able to stand it that. here and he pays 250 euros for his room and can use the washing machine bathroom

and kitchen. stephen never comes i don't know if he has 2 left hands but he never uses the kitchen it by me only one whoever cooks a will. usually . sometimes we want to go. what would you keep putting do we don't have to become friends. when he finds a place of his own and moves out i still keep thinking about him. where does he go when how is he doing out in one hour range i'm in is i've helped him and one day he'll even p.s. you know when i run into someone in the streets that i help before we're happy to see each other and ask how the other is doing sometimes i get a pack of cigarettes as a thank you but if you look you hear about it. homelessness if only temporary has

always been an issue in amsterdam but never like this in the past 10 years the number of homeless people has shot up by 24 percent. unemployment divorce or illness can force anyone out of their homes even actions cancelled lease agreements it happens quicker than you'd think. the rainbow group is an aid organization in amsterdam each week about 30 people at risk of having to sleep on the street come here for help. workers can find them a room they can legally rent on short notice but there is a very high demand. on the letter and it could literally happen to anyone in all it takes is one bad turn of luck too many and that makes you lose your home and you cannot find any place quickly enough ads it doesn't matter where you're from or how long you've lived. that insecurity that it could happen to anyone

is what makes wendy anxious more anxious than she'd like to admit she's been hunting for a new place ever since she moved out with her sons that was a year and a half ago every morning she checks for new listings online. and. this decides so i go to this web page and there it says no longer available like a credit of this other better voting for the why would they even list it is so frustrating. in that single thing why do i even bother looking back i mean i. think i can afford a maximum range of $13.00 to $1500.00 theorizes now total problem that for me the problem is the landlords want proof that my salary is full or 5 times higher. that i set and the income would at least on year dot size if your teen $100.00 euros rent times $55.00 that would mean more than $6000.00 euros income i have to

take notice of how brutal that's a lot and i don't earn that much in the detail sale since i was. already one in 10 households spends more than 40 percent of their income on living costs and because the market is so out of control property owners can dictate the rules from my parents with children have particular difficulties. will fight for the house the middle i've never moved around much i prefer stability i don't think i can even imagine having to leave here this this is my spouse yeah i like sitting here with my books and my books i record everything and all the city.

but it's neat it might not be my house that. i mean i don't own it. at my house but it is my home i have money might have. if she can't find a place to rent when he is willing to buy a home there's a construction site right around the corner. 500 new apartments on the grounds of a former wharf luxury apartments nothing wendy could afford. for the middle. apartments like these are out of reach for middle class wages to 15 off the value of we either and too little. of the it's very low or too much of a no that is it's not enough to buy or rent. and it's too much to be eligible for subsidized housing. and this is

a shot of voting for the you know that in between there's hardly anything left for the middle class. in the past 5 years real estate prices in amsterdam have nearly doubled not only in the city center but further out as well there's a lot of interest in this apartment in southern amsterdam another mass viewing. in. the entry bid is 350000 euros for $68.00 square metres here homes are sold to the highest bidder. you're more demands you always have to offer at least 102030000 euros more than the

asking price if you want to even stand a chance of course that's an. but that's just the way. that he says they feel there's a lot of competition at the sense the pressure from the other potential is what makes it even harder to make a good everyone is very emotional or. at least now has passed. property for the purpose of speculating on the market whoever buys a house now must also move themselves and stay there for at least 5 years. about 60 percent of the population are homeowners germany on the other hand has the lowest rate of homeowners with just 45 percent. about 70 percent on their own home and in the baltic region it's almost 90 percent. your own form can be a good solution even if the place is small. stein mehrtens wants to turn his lack

of assets to his advantage he's moving out of the city to live independently and save costs in his very own tiny home. he's building his 26 square meter house in denver. cologne. i feel like i'm carrying too much baggage around. i want to reduce my cost of living so that i can devote more time to the things i really care about bone loss the. so don't think we're so they call miracle the. show. so many people in the netherlands and in the rest of the world are so stressed out about paying back their mortgage busy. what is for the. well michael or they buy expensive cars just so they can drive to work. but i

think that leads to sacrificing a sense of freedom. it makes people less ready to take risks. his new home costs $36000.00 euros and that's just the cost of the materials stein is building the tiny home himself it's a modular design might lay good for grownups. aside from being a part time handyman stein is also a music promoter and soon he will also be a homeowner for now he still lives in a $75.00 square metres subsidized apartment in the city. come in. he's got 3 times the space here then he will have in his tiny house the rent is 600 euros. yeah. here you can see gems books. and i have

a ton of furniture. this year is really special to me because before will also for me to call the mobile this was my mother's desk. she just passed away recently. and she goes over maybe i can leave it with my sister so that it can stay in the family. this is something that actually really like to take with me but i can't the house is simply too small for music instead i'm here some of my instruments. let's not nearly all of them. so if you're. barack obama collector i've got all sorts of things that i'm emotionally attached to i'm sure i got that from my mother. she always said waste not want not but now i'm tackling my biggest challenge i'm going to downsize considerably so i'll have to get rid of a lot. less i have to tell you the biggest lesson i

can learn from this is to let go of everything i own can also become baggage while lost sorry. and in the past years he's gathered plenty of baggage his moving boxes are piling up. so he's been checking online and checking in thrift shops and also places that take donations he enjoys the thought of giving away the things he can't keep in his new home. collection i've got a record collection i love music. and i have so many l.p.'s. even my own. but i recorded it with my band and it means a lot to me. if for my production the graphics. everything about a record makes it a special listening experience. 0 but if i'm being honest how often do i actually listen to a record it's nice having them here and sometimes i have

a fun evening with friends listening to them. but that only happens maybe twice a year the comes back is it really worth using all this space for that for both. soon his new home will be in mini topia an entire residential park with tiny homes on a former landfill. they named their place mini topia because they knew they were pioneering a new movement here and stein has a small bathroom a kitchenette and one big room to live in. those don't fare thank you sure it'll take some discipline. in the morning i have to fold my bed back up and clear away the bedding i like to sleep in so i'll have to remember to put away my bed before going to work or my home will be a mess when i come back. for

that he'll be getting a roof terrace with a view and a life without debt. all he has to pay is $200.00 euros a month to lease the plot of land. border i spent a long time looking for a place where i could be closer to nature and feel a little freer houser until now i've always had houses right in front of me i couldn't watch the sunrise or see it set. now look here look at the swans things like that bring tears of joy to my eyes. wendy is also on the verge of tears. i still have some standards but for how long i wonder. the clock is ticking she has 3 months to find a new home and there's still nothing inside. the

facade that's so frustrating it makes me sad and angry sometimes it almost drives me crazy. but i can't let that happen i don't want to let it happen i keep staying positive i'm still convinced something will turn up. i don't know when or how or where and that's difficult. figure stuff. but i won't let myself be dragged down by that if need. be that anyone who is looking to rent buy or even build is going to need a lot of time a lot of money and strong nerves and a lot of luck. is just popular. because

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