> but as long as someone lives in those new apartments (who would have lived in Berlin anyway), it helps with the housing shortage and prices. > At some point

> but as long as someone lives in those new apartments (who would have lived in Berlin anyway), it helps with the housing shortage and prices. > At some point in the chain that means there's cheaper housing available. Not at all: if you tear down a cheap apartment and replace it with a more expensive one the overall availability of cheap apartments decreases.