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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 soa…
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In 1985 I lived in a flat / store front apartment in Berlin Zoo for about $60.00 <br>American dollars,<br>I forget what that was in Marks, it’s been awhile
Overregulation and overtaxation are the primary issues. This is the same problem across Europe and will never change unless measures are taken to drastically lower taxes and lower barriers to entry in selected market areas such as materials manufacturing, construction and small business operation. The politicians don’t have a clue and will continue to wish for “foreign investment” as the answer. China is salivating as European economies continue to struggle. No wonder there are riots everywhere rn.
Short answer: no<br>Long answer: yes, but not as an isolated measure. It is necessary though.
Deregulate the policies that restrict the creation of new housing.<br><br>You're not letting the market work by making it too onerous to build new housing
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.
Short answer: no.
The market will not solve problems created by the nature of the market.
"socialization"= stealing. "DW" isn't "media", but tax-financed propanda
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
Socialization always brings disaster
honestly, this just tells me that they don't understand how a market works.<br><br>If you reduce the rent, then even more people want to move there, which leads to even longer queues for free apartments.<br>And since the price for rents is already fixed to some degree (Mietpreisbremse), building new apartments is not a good investment.<br><br>What I think needs to happen:<br>- 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<br>- use half the money of those billions for building new, government-owned apartments<br>- don't sell public housing ffs
1. Socialism is a slippery slope. It will never end there.<br>2. Socialism doesn't create wealth. Socialism redistributes poverty.<br>3. Socialism is authoritarianism. People are not animals with primitive needs only, people need liberty.<br>4. Socialism has consequences: it is like a field attacked by flock of locusts. It only takes time to consume what is ready to be eaten, but in the end it also brings decay. And there is always an ending that will not be happy.
WOW......Berlin.......what about France? Spain? Italy? Every european country has their own housing crisis and nobody can solve it cause they are solving the wrong crisis😮💨😮💨😮💨
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.
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