Housing in Germany

• Rent an Apartment or Room 🏠 – How and where to rent an apartment or room in Germany
  • by Cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich
  • Cheap flats with a WBS – A Wohnberechtigungsschein (WBS) gives you access to subsidised cheap social housing
  • Schufa – When long-term renting a flat, you nearly always need a Schufa-Auskunft
• Get furniture & household goods 🪑
  • for free – Facebook groups and websites where people give things away for free
• Order utilities 🔌
  • Electricity – List of Energy suppliers and how to order them
  • Gas – same for gas providers
  • Internet – Overview of DSL & cable internet providers