If there are 100 houses in Berlin, and 101 households want to live there, no amount of reclaiming the housing stock is going to create space for that additional

If there are 100 houses in Berlin, and 101 households want to live there, no amount of reclaiming the housing stock is going to create space for that additional household. Berlin's population has been growing by leaps and bounds. The only way for everyone to have enough housing is to create enough housing for everyone to live there, or to make it sufficiently unattractive to live in that people leave.