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Berlin builds in vain and too hesitantly against the lack of housing in the city.Caritas director Ulrike Kostka speaks of a “dam broken” that is imminent in terms of homelessness in terms of homelessness at the start of this year's cold-term season.This year, the league of the top associations of free welfare in Berlin (Liga Berlin) focuses on prevention of homelessness. Every person who can keep his apartment counts.The Haehren goal of having overcome homelessness by 2030 has long since said goodbye."We are faced with a breast fracture in the question of homeless," says Ulrike Kostka and refers to a forecast of the Senate from the beginning of 2024, which assumes a doubling of the number of homeless people in Berlin until 2028. Homeless help at the limit 53,6100 people already live in accommodation for homeless help.In just three years, 100,800 are expected.Every 40th Berliner would then be affected by the homelessness or homelessness.Already today the capacities in the care of people are not sufficient, the system of homeless help at the limit works. The risk of losing your own four walls has long since arrived in the middle class, Kostka further illustrates.On the advisory phones at Caritas, AWO, Diakonie and Co., calls for people who worried, even though they have an income. The problems that the social associations address in connection with homelessness are diverse: a collapsed housing market, social housing that does not meet the need, immigration, increasing addiction problems, problems with the digital offers of the offices, to cope with an aging population.Small and large hurdles in everyday life, from the non -open letter to rent debts of tens of thousands, can in the worst case that people suddenly stand on the street. Prevention can help save Low -threshold offers that use early can help here."Around 70 to 80 percent of people who are presented when advising Caritas can be preserved from homelessness," explains Ulrike Kostka. However, the more complex starting point hits the districts in savings rounds."But if you save here, you have to spend a lot more money in the end," says Diakonie director Ursula Schoen.Each loss of housing costs huge amounts, financially and socio-political, according to the director of the Diakonisches Werk Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. Every euro that flows into prevention saves seven euros in the end, the German City Day calculated.For example, in the expensive accommodation of people in so-called ASOG accommodations (ASOG is the abbreviation for the general security and regulatory law).For the accommodation of a family of four on almost 30 square meters in the simplest accommodation, it is not uncommon for as much to be paid as for a penthouse apartment in Mitte.Month after month. The list of measures that can help prevent homelessness is long.It starts on a small scale - training for caretakers have already proven themselves.And it stops on the big one: Something has to change in data protection at the federal level, the associations demand.This is the only way for social authorities, for example, to raise the alarm in good time for rent debts. Decopolitics does not solve any problems If it doesn't work on the small adjustment screws, what use national action plans, asks Ulrike Kostka."Decopolitics" is the goal of eliminating homelessness by 2023 if less and less aid are granted when the figures rising. For the moment of the crisis it would be good, if not more homeless people could still do so, the representatives of the welfare associations agree.Under the mantra "Provision is better and above all cheaper than healing", they break a lance for not reducing functioning prevention work.In all districts, the advice centers are under pressure and would have to reject people. 16,000 children and adolescents without an apartment It is clear that if you lose your apartment, you will not get back to a new one so quickly.And this has dramatic consequences.Of the 53,610 people living in dormitories, sponsors or emergency overnight stays, almost 16,000 children and adolescents under the age of 18 are.14,375 people have been living in the aid system for two years.6032 people live completely without a roof over their heads on the street.Another 2300 people have been accommodated by friends or relatives. The offers of the cold aids, which start on October 1st and include around 900 emergency overnight stays, heat rooms, the Kaltbus and soup kitchens, be just a small patch on a gaping wound.