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Why does the national government allow the city of Berlin to implement such short sighted and destructive policies? There should be some guidelines set by the n
by tschellenbach 7y ago
Why does the national government allow the city of Berlin to implement such short sighted and destructive policies? There should be some guidelines set by the national government about what you can and can't do in terms of housing supply.
- pgeorgi 7y agoBecause Germany is a federal republic. There's stuff the federal government just has nothing to say about. I mean, in case of Berlin, they could help by moving back to Bonn. Lots of real estate, both office and residential, would free up immediately.
- iso-8859-1 7y agoThere is fresh federal legislation on this subject: Mietrechtsanpassungsgesetz (MietAnpG). Here is an overview: https://www.etl-rechtsanwaelte.de/aktuelles/mietrechtsanpassungsgesetz-2019-ein-kurzer-ueberblick-fuer-eigentuemer-vermieter-und-potentielle-immobilieninvestoren https://www.etl-rechtsanwaelte.de/aktuelles/mietrechtsanpass...
- pgeorgi 7y agoContract law (as changed by MietAnpG) is part of the BGB ("civil code"), which is federal law, while the rent cap is built on top of housing law ("Wohnungsrecht"), which is - mostly - state law (e.g. https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226212113/Mietendeckel-in-Berlin-Mieten-duerfen-fuenf-Jahre-nicht-steigen.html https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226212113/Mietendeck...). The states are rather peculiar about the federal government trying to infringe on their right to set laws, so even if most other states agree that the rent cap is a bad idea (not a given), it's uncertain that they would support anything that uses federal powers (in the Bundesrat, which would be hard to avoid) to stop it in Berlin.