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Isn't the alternative to say "you can stop paying us because we're not going to evict you no matter what"?
by WithinReason 4y ago
Isn't the alternative to say "you can stop paying us because we're not going to evict you no matter what"?
- mschuster91 4y agoThe alternative would be to say "we won't evict you as long as you can reasonably demonstrate you're doing your best, and we will use our significant political connections to fight for more government aid and/or price caps on energy". This is what common-good organization landlords ("Genossenschaften") are doing now. But that is not the point of what is going on here with Vonovia. The "problem" that Vonovia and other landlords face is that rent raises for existing contracts are capped at 15/20% over three years, while new rent contracts are capped at 10/20% above the "average rent" aka Mietspiegel, which is determined by looking at the last years' worth of new rental contracts. The result is that many old rental contracts are sitting far below average rents... and now Vonovia can abuse the current heating cost crisis to evict people and put the units at current market prices.