Current building culture and energy-saving ordinance-compliant new development areas

Yes, you are right. It is also a bit of scaremongering. About the photos: Osnabrück is okay. It is quite diversely built. And the gravel garden is at least not the rule here, there are often fruit trees, a freak here has planted everything with palms and vines, a Greece fan, I wonder if that will work well in our weather? You see Frisian mounds instead of fences, you see small ponds, many flowers in front of the house, at the moment the crocus is blooming, the narcissism is still reluctant, too cold, always only 3-5 degrees, night frost. The newcomers from Baden-Württemberg, show-offs with huge houses, have brought huge show-off plants in pots, and every morning the wind blows them to the side, she is already quite desperate, you can soon buy the house, it can’t withstand her hairstyle with the eternal storm, as she calls it... Unfortunately, I am not allowed to take any photos of all this, that would not be fair to the people. Karsten

Garden area also means additional time and work, which at least in the usual new housing developments people neither have time for nor want any more work.

In other words, terrace, hedge, lawn. Everything else means effort.

Here are a few more examples, by the way:

Well, Gotha is really amazing! Then it might as well be the slab, right?

There was certainly a developer at work.
It's just practical for a city, just sign one contract and that's it.

That raises the question of whether it is fair if no building land is available anymore and instead trees are planted. So, for example, anyone who wants to live near Berlin has to move into a high-rise, end of story. Building land is all gone.

Speaking of Berlin, recently there was a report about the housing shortage there. At home, a dispute broke out about whether residents who can no longer afford to live there should have a right to housing. My husband is a total communist and was outraged that apartments were renovated and then rented out at double the price. The single mother had to figure out where to go.
I argued that nobody can expect to live in the capital of Germany for next to nothing. Whoever lives here belongs to the elite or lives outside. With Hartz IV, you can only afford Anklam.

My husband was already about to file for divorce.

LOL, well unfortunately sad truth. There is no more room for low earners in the capital.

LOL, well unfortunately a sad truth. There is no more room for low earners in the capital.

Even for the upper middle class, no building land can be found in Berlin and the surrounding area. The prices are really insane.

I recently saw 600 sqm on the outskirts of Berlin again for 259k...