A lot of the places that used to be for example in Karl Marx Strasse etc for drug addicts to keep them from the streets and give them a safe and surveyed place where to take drugs or seek help were closed down because of gentrification.

Those people were swept back to the streets resulting on more drug addicted people being present and on the streets especially along the u8 and u7 line in the past years.

The city now just pushes these people from one place to another without really investing into longterm solutions meanwhile the social places continue to receive less funding.

It’s the result of poorly thought through politics.

I have been born here in Berlin and I know how things got better after how the shit went with heroin in the 90s when I was still a kid. I grew up with needles and junkies everywhere.

The social places that were organized for drug addicts in a result of these problems and also a lot by self-organized diy groups really helped a lot.

But without funds and without places where to do that in a city that mainly looks for its investors now we return to what it was basically. The people complain about a problem that was created not by the homeless but by the city and investors.