Complete WBS crazyness. Makes no sense and nobody seems to care.

I saw an apartment on Gewobag in one of the Stalinbauten. Nice place, fully renovated. 105sqm with 3.5 rooms. Perfect for a family. I applied before realizing it was only WBS. And I am absolutely baffled, because the warmmiete was 1400€. That is a fantastic price for any middle class family with a decent income. I.e., the people that are not allowed to apply. Now, the point is this tho: the highest earners on the highest level of WBS need to be below 32.000€ netto per year for a married couple. That's 2700 per month, for the whole haushalt. So, the people with the highest possible income who are allowed to apply for this apartment are people who would have to pay 1400 euro rent with a 2700 euro income.

What am I missing? How is this considered even remotely sane by the social housing companies?

To add insult to injury, these are nice and renovated apartments that are precluded from people who break their ass to work and earn a fair wage.

I'm just furious, and doubly so as a convinced social democrat.

Edited the calculation because it seems the numbers for wbs are based on the netto. The problem doesn't change.