Wiesbaden Wants to Enable Housing Exchange

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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The example of Wiesbaden shows that a digital exchange exchange for apartments can help. Thus, the basic problem of missing housing, which the majority of the population can still afford, cannot be solved.

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According to the Federal Statistical Office, every ninth person in Germany lives in an apartment that is too small. At the same time, the proportion of people with an apartment that is too large is significantly higher. In fact, many housing problems could be solved by an exchange, but that is what has happened very rarely so far. The city of Wiesbaden wants to change that. Too small for one, too big for the other: many apartments no longer fit …