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Berlin has a system with long tenacy but very high tenant protection.
And a massive housing shortage because it doesn't make commercial sense for anyone to build new residential properties.
Brommers-
Is that the only reason?
Netherlands has a shortage due to lack of keeping up but that is also a problem for the social housing co-ops (which got hurt a lot by the global stock market crash due to the property crash as they had also invested in stocks...)
Dublin has a shortage due to lack of investment/keeping up AND people objecting to flats being built nearby
Some cities have zoning problems as well, where councils refuse to rezone old shops/industrial areasThere are no government built houses in Berlin at all?
JWestland
Why do we need to OWN housing anyway?
Berlin has a system with long tenacy but very high tenant protection.
Here there is low tenant protection, low protecting against price hikes, low interference of the government on poor housing, very few social housing groups/companies that are non-profit that do housing (Northern Ireland still has a few, you won't get luxury housing but it is usually quite adequate, such groups are common in The Netherlands) so we all get pushed towards owning a house, which we then can't afford.
Not ideal :)