Berlin spent 883 million euros on refugee housing in 2024

Berliner Zeitung reports that the cost of housing refugees in Berlin keeps rising. In 2024 alone, the city spent 2.4 million euros on this every day. That comes to just under 74 million euros a month and 883 million euros for the year.

The paper says the figure is not an estimate. It comes from an answer by the Berlin social affairs administration to a parliamentary question, dated December 2025.

A photo caption gives one example of the costs. It says a single bed in a lightweight hall costs the state of Berlin 4,700 euros a month. The photo shows the site of the former refugee shelter in Tegel, which the paper describes as once the largest in Germany.

The article asks where the money goes and why the costs keep growing. Only the opening section was available, because the rest of the text is behind a paywall. This summary therefore covers only those opening figures and not the paper's full explanation.