A number of public housing here in Berlin is reserved for people making less than a certain amount, having no job at all, or working/living in precarious situat

A number of public housing here in Berlin is reserved for people making less than a certain amount, having no job at all, or working/living in precarious situations. You can apply for that status at the local gov. It is not flawless, of course, but it at least avoids segregation. I live in a district that was originally working class, and is being very fastly gentrified now (yuppie myself I guess), and it just sucks that people who've lived here all their lives have to move to completely new environments because this is now an area desirable desirable for rich people. Same with small businesses, one of my favorite bars closed down recently due to some English billionaires wanting to turn the house into higher margin living. Vice did a documentary on it called "Punks vs. Billionaires". For the people living here, who live in small flats and still pay half their income to it, these "living room" bars, where you do not have to buy to be welcome were absolutely essential. But they all get destroyed now. Almost all new private housing is for richer people, because they are the most profitable, and lots of them move over at the moment. The state needs to step in to make sure that normal people can still live a decent life around here, too, lest we become a horror show like London.