DIE WOHNUNGSWENDE

City dwellers around the world are suffering from rising housing prices. Whether in London, Paris, or Berlin, entire neighborhoods in major cities are becoming “investor ghettos” full of prestigious buildings in which hardly anyone lives. This is just one example of the negative developments in the construction industry, alongside extreme resource consumption, faceless city centers, and unaffordable rents. Europe’s cities are growing steadily, but will there be enough living space for tomorrow’s developments?

This film takes viewers to the hotspots of the housing crisis. To the places where things are burning – not just figuratively. Where entire families are left on the street from one day to the next, where residential areas are demolished to make way for new developments, but also to places where ways out of the crisis are becoming apparent. At the same time, it explains how it came to be that such a precious commodity as land in Europe’s city centers became an object of speculation – and who is responsible for this.