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by qeternity 1730 days ago
> By the way, land is also limited in Berlin and therefore expensive. Makes building cheap apartments difficult.

This is the other reality of free markets and scarce resources: if there is only so much land in Berlin, and lots of people want to live in Berlin, then it means some people won’t be able to. That’s just the reality. Unfortunately that means people who can’t afford have to move. As sad as that is, we don’t have a better system for allocating scarce resources sustainably.