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Re:Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two disti... by shuckles on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:23PM (#26323944)
Can you point me to some evidence that vacancies are a problem in the rental market?
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Re:Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two disti... by mxfh on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:44AM (#26326427)
My immediate neigborhood, with quite a few empty appartments?! Even the service workers asked to install the mandated smoke detectors were commenting about this, since they can't access quite a few of appartments even during COVID's stay at home policies.

There is no offical data on this, since it's illegal to keep them vacant for more than 3 months. So they are under "maintenance" or the like.

https://web.de/magazine/politik/schattenmieten-leerstand-ber...

https://www.zeit.de/2020/37/mietendeckel-berlin-immobilienma...

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Re:Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two disti... by shuckles on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:20AM (#26330459)
In San Francisco, there are plenty of people who have the same anecdotes as you, but their story falls apart when you look at the numbers. Yours may as well.
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