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You don't need the slightly racist comment, biggest problem imho is that house ownership is very low in berlin (last time I read about it was around only 15% of
by mtrovo 6y ago
You don't need the slightly racist comment, biggest problem imho is that house ownership is very low in berlin (last time I read about it was around only 15% of people live on their owned houses) and really hard to change that. You have to think that everytime you're looking at buying a place you're competing with Blackrock, Deutsche Wohne and other not so nice funds with much more room for negotiation than you. That's why even if you and your partner makes top 10% salary you're probably not rich enough to own a house.
And on top of that germany has very strict laws about transparency of home ownership so there's no clear way to know the distribution of home ownership or who are the biggest landlords and where they got their money from. Which is bad because there's a lot of shady people buying whole complexes, but it's also working as intended as a lot of politicians are also big landlords.
- junon 6y agoA country isn't a race, and I omitted the specific country for the very purpose of not painting a picture based on their skin color, because it has literally nothing to do with it. It's also not a reflection of their character or their culture, either. Please don't mis-assert that it's "racism". Also, have you been to Berlin? Of course people don't own houses here. Unless you're outside the ring, there are very few houses to be bought. If you're talking about owning apartments within the large houses here, it makes sense that a lot of people don't want to own them - because not a lot of young people want to be tied down to a 40sqm unit in one part of the city for the rest of their lives, or deal with all of the hassle of subletting and the tenancy laws here unless they were serious about holding and nurturing those securities.