Is Berlin becoming more Biodeutsch?

I've been in Berlin for about eight years now and I think the bigger shift is economic, not ethnic. The city is getting more expensive and that pushes out anyone who can't afford rising rents, regardless of background. I rent in Wedding and my building is still a mix of Turkish, Arabic, German, and Polish families, but I see fewer new people moving in because the cheap apartments are disappearing. The discrimination angle is real but I notice it more in who gets invited to house viewings than in who actually lives here.

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fwiw i think the rental market is so insane rn that landlords just go with whoever has the best schufa and payslips regardless of name. i've seen turkish germans with perfect credit get apartments in charlottenburg no problem while my german friend with a freelance income got ghosted for months. the real discrimination in berlin is against people without a permanent contract tbh

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imo the real shift is in who's visible in public spaces. like go to any park in Pberg on a sunny day and it's mostly white families with kids now, compared to five years ago when you'd see way more mixed groups hanging out. the housing thing is real but it's also cultural - the city's vibe is changing because the people who can afford to stay are a specific demographic. i've had turkish friends tell me they feel less welcome in their own hoods lately, which says a lot.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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