Fuggerei turns 500: world’s oldest social housing

DW (English) 2021-08-16

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Jakob Fugger founded the housing project for the poor in 1521. The annual rent was one Rhenish guilder – or 88 cents today – and it never rose. But to live here, you have to say three prayers a day.
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