Berlin spent 883 million euros on refugee housing in 2024
Written by AI from berliner-zeitung.de's report. Not checked by a person.
Berliner Zeitung reports that Berlin spent about 2.4 million euros a day on housing refugees in 2024. A bed in a lightweight hall at Tegel is said to cost 4,700 euros a month.
Berlin spent 883 million euros on housing refugees in 2024, according to a report by the Berliner Zeitung. That works out to about 2.4 million euros for every single day of the year, or just under 74 million euros a month.
The paper says the figure is not an estimate. It comes from a reply by the city's social administration to a parliamentary question submitted in December 2025.
A photo caption in the article refers to the former refugee shelter at Tegel, described as once the largest in Germany. According to the caption, one bed in a lightweight hall there costs the state of Berlin 4,700 euros a month.
The article, headlined as asking why Berlin's refugee accommodation keeps getting more expensive, also poses the question of where the money goes. The text available here is cut off by a subscription wall, so further details on the spending are not included.
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