In general, the housing policy of the Third Reich in its early years consisted of shifting responsibility back towards private sources of funding. Whereas under the Weimar Republic 42.4 per cent of all housing finance had been provided by the public authorities, by 1936 this had fallen to 8 per cent. The most effective new mechanism of housing policy devised by Hitler’s regime was the Reichsbuergschaft, a public guarantee for mortgages raised by private landlords. Though this required the Reich to provide no funds, the willingness of the Reich to guarantee lenders against default helped to
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