Why buy rather than expropriate? Berlin has lots of people with no apartments, and the commercial corporations have apartments without permanent residents. Inst

Why buy rather than expropriate? Berlin has lots of people with no apartments, and the commercial corporations have apartments without permanent residents. Instead, Berlin is funneling ~200K EUR of public funds x 14,750 to partially rectify an allocation anomaly of Capitalism. (If you're against expropriation - it could just be a massively high tax on apartments owned besides the one you physically live in; or a strong de-criminalization of squatting of such apartments, including allowing for registering as the resident based on actual residence etc.)