Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords

Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by awild on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:06AM (#28576376)

The amount of new apts would be dramatically high to curb prices and make them realistic again. And Berlin is probably also not able to magically create as much new living space as is needed in that short of a time frame especially given the developers unwillingness to build affordable housing. I think where we probably fundamentally don't agree is that not all things need to be provided through a market. (or I think my point is more so that we've at least observed it not reall working here, so we could at least try a different strategy or multitudes and see how far those take us)

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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:13AM (#28576432)

> The amount of new apts would be dramatically high to curb prices and make them realistic again

I'm fine with short term patches to help with the acute issues, but fundamentally unless a lot of housing is built, there are going to be some people suffering in the housing market. Either it will be poor people paying a lot for housing, or it will be poor people who are unable to win lotteries to get into public housing who then cannot afford housing at all. Whether the housing is publicly or privately owned is just pushing sand around the sandbox. It just changes exactly who the winners and losers are, but not the number of people losing.

> I think where we probably fundamentally don't agree is that not all things need to be provided through a market.

I don't hold this belief. There is no fundamental disagreement on this score between us.

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