Slowly decreasing population, but the demand would still be there, with so many people in all the decrepit concrete block (plattenbau) apartment blocks, not to mention inner-city and older village houses in need of refurbishment (or in waste capitalism: replacement with newer brighter larger homes); plus still on-going longer-term developments like urbanisation and the atomisation of greater families (grandparents-multiple sons/daughters-grandchildren) that not seldom lived in the same house.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}