goverment build housing Berlin government is not building housing in meaningful quantities to keep up with demand. You can look at BER (the airport that was s

goverment build housing Berlin government is not building housing in meaningful quantities to keep up with demand. You can look at BER (the airport that was supposed to open in 2012) to get an appreciation for how dysfunctional Berlin's regional government is. Berlin's NIMBY population is also to blame, they voted against developing former Tempelhof airport [1]. It would have been easy to erect dwellings for > 10k people there. The rent-freeze is populist political action to cover up government inability, and redirect anger away from the root cause of the problem (Berlin's government) towards scapegoats. Freezing rent will not create a single new dwelling, indeed it will reduce incentives from building property. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid_zum_Tempelhofer_Feld_in_Berlin https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid_zum_Tempelhofer...