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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by vonmoltke on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:18AM (#28576472)
How is it that there are "luxury apartments without renters", yet landlords get away with " rent[ing] out shitty apartments at abhorrent prices"? Why don't the people who can afford those shitty apartments move to the empty luxury ones instead?
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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by Kliment on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:15AM (#28576878)
Because they're not on the rental market, but are mostly used as a value store by owners that don't live anywhere nearby, and have multiple properties.
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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by geitir on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:05PM (#28578854)
Maybe impose a tax on unoccupied apartments past a certain number
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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by dredmorbius on Saturday September 18, 2021 @08:23PM (#28580571)
A land value tax accomplishes this without the complexities of determining occupancy status or fraud concerning same.
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