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Do you not think this was the entire point of the policy? Rent control doesn't exist to lower rent for everyone, it exists to reward the long term residents who
by colinmhayes 6y ago
Do you not think this was the entire point of the policy? Rent control doesn't exist to lower rent for everyone, it exists to reward the long term residents who voted for it at the expense of newcomers. Berliners essentially voted themselves a handout.
- throwaway12903 6y agoGentrification is real though. And a lot of Berlin's culture is built by people who don't earn that much. I'd be interested to know for how many people it actually helps at the margins and how many its just a handout for. But yeh - I can imagine a lot of middle-class folks saw its as virtue signalling and free money at the same time.