Only one day after the self-satisfied jubilation of red-green-red comes a statistic that is not very pleasant. The report “Monitoring Social Urban Development 2021” paints a sober picture of poverty in Berlin.
On behalf of the Senate Department for Building and Housing, scientists identified areas where social disadvantage is particularly great. 56 of 536 neighborhoods examined are “areas with special need for attention” – five more than in the last report from 2019.
What the scientists mean by this: “areas of very low social status or low social status”. Specifically: many unemployed, many Hartz IV recipients, more child poverty – poverty neighborhoods.
There are 13 new neighborhoods on this list: Lübecker Strasse, Zillesiedlung, Askaner Platz, Griesingerstrasse, Alvenslebenstrasse, Feurigstrasse, Marienfelder Allee Northwest, Braunschweiger Strasse, Gropiusstadt South-East, Kosmosviertel, Gut Hellersdorf, Schleipfuhl and Wartenberg North.
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The report is apparently uncomfortable for the construction administration led by Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD). There was no press conference to present the numbers. A translation of the technical jargon of statisticians? “It’s not our job!” An explanatory interview with the scientists? “Too expensive!”
How the Senate wants to help the poor neighborhoods? With district management. Around 28 million euros flowed into 32 of these areas in 2021.
