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What if a city took tens of thousands of apartments away from corporate landlords? Berlin is debating exactly that. Supporters say it's the only way to stop soaring rents. Critics call it a dangerous step. Why?
Chapters:
00:53 Berlin's housing crisis
02:45 The new socialization plan
04:30 The pros and cons
10:01 Is it going to happen?
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Plans to bring large housing companies into public ownership in Berlin could also face fierce resistance from the federal government. Germany's conservative Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has presented proposals for a new law that would significantly raise the legal hurdles for the socialization of privately owned housing – including demanding full market value compensation – potentially making the takeover of tens of thousands of apartments much more expensive.
Es ist ja weitläufige bekannt, dass die Verwaltung in Berlin hocheffizient und modern ist, ich kann es gar nicht abwarten, bis diese gleichen Leute dann auch noch hunderttausende Wohnung verwalten dürfen. Das wird sicher total wunderbar.
In 1985 I lived in a flat / store front apartment in Berlin Zoo for about $60.00 American dollars, I forget what that was in Marks, it’s been awhile
Let’s definitely ask a former communist, secret police chief how to fix the market failures in Berlin. What could possibly go wrong?
Who will pay for this stupidity? The people who actually work and pay taxes?
Germany's federal government has vowed to stop the plan in its tracks. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is currently leading a push to woo more investors in Germany and worries the Berlin plans could turn them away.
honestly, this just tells me that they don't understand how a market works. If you reduce the rent, then even more people want to move there, which leads to even longer queues for free apartments. And since the price for rents is already fixed to some degree (Mietpreisbremse), building new apartments is not a good investment. What I think needs to happen: - lower the threshold for building new houses. eG a church always MUST be the tallest building in a city, that's why germany barely has any skyscrapers - use half the money of those billions for building new, government-owned apartments - don't sell public housing ffs
It's bad DW didn't mention cities that have managed to solve housing crisis recently. Las Vegas and Auckland in NZ. Rent prices stay stable there for years. Why? They built a lot of new houses, and didn't limit rentals.
I wonder exactly how many new homes our honored sociologist has ever built or put onto the market himself.
And look what happened to the properties in state ownership... decay like in Austria... the solution would be to create a cheaper framework for single plot construction. Not single house but appartments. And to let big money out, cap it at 20 or so.
Taking a 16 billion loan and build 0 new houses or flats for that will fix nothing. No need to be a genius to know that
Short answer: no.
I f dr I believe in big city when u start restricting rents its bad- rent should be completly open to free market
I do not know if it will "fix" it -- but Whatever has been going on for a long time now Clearly isn't working so Sure go for it.
Er.... Didn't east Berlin use to have something similar? Then they let in amateur construction companies who started ripping out walls... Next thing you know there's a crisis!
No one thought it was strange to have so many architects unemployed or receiving so little for so many years? This stagnation and halt in construction was manufactured by the millennial generation's greed to stop building, sell high, and maximize profit with zero care for younger generations.
Deregulate the policies that restrict the creation of new housing. You're not letting the market work by making it too onerous to build new housing
Socialization always brings disaster
A.I. says the average rent in a Vonovia apartment is 8,26 EUR per m². Is that true? That's very cheap. You pay rents like this in small towns. We are talking about Berlin here.
Socialism never fixed anything