TINY HOUSES

Today in Berlin: April 11, 1920

On this day in 1920 one of Berlin’s leading newspapers, the “Vossiche Zeitung”, published a photo of a new emergency-housing estate built in to help alleviate the eternal problem of shortage of affordable accommodation. A problem which in 1919 proved especially acute: Berlin was full of refugees from all over the former Kaiserreich. And bred-and-born Berliners were not doing any better either: most families suffered direct or indirect losses, many of them of the only breadwinner.