Overview
- Germany’s expert council on integration and migration, in a report released Tuesday, warns that tight rental markets are fueling fights over affordable homes that fall most heavily on people with migration histories.
- The report finds migrants and their children have less living space, face more overcrowding, own homes less often, and pay a larger share of income on rent because of lower earnings and discrimination.
- Ethnic clustering has eased in recent years, yet separation by income has grown as lower‑income newcomers concentrate in stressed city neighborhoods.
- The council calls for investment in schools, childcare, health care and local social services in poor, high‑migration districts, and it backs anonymous rental applications to reduce early‑stage bias.
- The authors seek more social housing, note federal data showing a 10.8% rise in 2025 building permits and a new nonprofit housing status with tax breaks, and caution that an Equal Treatment Act clause could be used to justify turning away tenants by origin.