223
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
223 points (99.6% liked)
Today I Learned
32116 readers
978 users here now
What did you learn today? Share it with us!
We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.
** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**
Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Partnered Communities
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
It’s almost as if rich speculating landlords captured the govt or something
It‘s insane. Members of the German government are proposing to change the law so the city of Berlin can‘t force for-profit renting companies to sell their assets to the city to stop exploding rents. Their reasoning to intervene in perfectly legal city politics? It could scare foreign investors! They literally want to sell out housing in Germany so some dickheads in other parts of the world can fill their pockets even more with our money. Insanity!
I'd be cautious. I guess neither of us has concrete numbers but "Enteignung" means forcing someone to sell. This also means Berlin would buy the real estate at a mark up to make up for the forcing.
Now Berlin is in debt and buys real estate for their voters. In the framework of Länderfinanzausgleich basically bavaria is paying a portion of that. Have you looked at Munichs rent? Also why should person A live in what is basically a subsidized flat and person B not.
Furthermore the real estate in question is older pre heatpump era. Now Berlin wants to buy condos that need expensive repair at a mark up? Sounds like a great deal for vonovia.
Finally politics flip flop. Next gov wants to sell these expensive bought condos to the private companies again at a loss. Done so in Leipzig i think.
It's a good idea to make a law against state buys expensive flats and sells them cheap. It also reeks of corruption. But i agree, the other way would be better: dont allow the state to sell assets that are meant for allgemeinwohl.
Yeah, fuck that noise. What we're seeing in NL instead is the pension funds are getting into a landlord business. I am actually okay with that kinda circular economy.
All housing should completely be handed over to cooperatives ("Genossenschaften" in German). Low rents, high quality, no hassle.
Ask me how I know 😁
Cooperatives, self owned or the state are all fine by me. I just don‘t want people to make moneyjust from renting out. It‘s unproductive revenue because you‘re not actually providing a service. That feels wrong. We all need a roof over our heads and the cost should only cover repairs and not fill the pockets of someone else. Renting shouldn‘t be a business.