Rent Caps: Good riddance or Gone too soon?

[IntoEurope]

Some additional context: the housing crisis hit Germany a bit later, and not as strongly. So there were a lot of companies buying real estate there, and these are also the ones most commonly at fault for raising prices illegally in Berlin. With the way the averageing works, these raises push rent prices up for the entire neighborhood. Coupled with extremely slow building permitting, Berlin has developed a bit of a bad image in the rest of Germany in terms of housing for the average person.
-Kata

[Tommyleini]

We need more jobs outside the big cities. Germany isn't doing that badly in that regard but France and the UK often don't have jobs outside the capital cities. But people who open businesses just keep going for Paris and London because it seems to be the simple solution.

[till_teewurst]

It wasn't ruled unconstitutional in general. It was just decided that it wasn't the jurisdiction of the city of Berlin to set rent price caps. This would need to be done on a federal level. But unfortunately rent control didn't and doesn't play a big role for the federal governments

[Klaas_FX]

We need to cap the rents. Linke 2025 ❤️

[TheFireGiver]

German government: Is supply too low? No, it must be the concept of supply and demand that is wrong.