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Eisenhüttenstadt’s Free Rent Contest Draws 1,700 Global Applicants to Fight Decline

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In the quiet corners of eastern Germany, a bold experiment in urban revival has captured global attention, drawing thousands of applicants from around the world to a fading Soviet-era outpost. Eisenhüttenstadt, a planned city built in the 1950s around a massive steelworks, is grappling with severe depopulation, having lost nearly half its residents since reunification. To combat this, local officials launched a contest offering two weeks of rent…
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WebProNews broke the news in on Monday, August 25, 2025.
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