Why is that though? I just googled it and this article seems to think it's a result of bad economic times. Here's the last paragraph >It goes more or less with

Why is that though? I just googled it and this article seems to think it's a result of bad economic times. Here's the last paragraph >It goes more or less without saying, then, that with an economy stuck in such a unique rut for so long, the housing prices remained similarly uniquely low as well. There was little incentive to build and invest in a city that wasn’t growing economically. Which is precisely what has helped make it so attractive to many, and such fertile ground for investors now that the economy is finally beginning to recover. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the-history-behind-berlins-cheap-rents https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the-history-behind-berlins-... The problem in my city is that in the city there is no middle, there's expensive apartments/townhouses and there's section 8. What I'm most interested in is how do we get mid-priced living introduced into urban areas?