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| A protest for "fair affordable housing" in Berlin in 2024. |
Berlin SPD wants to set up ‘rental police’ to combat exorbitant rents
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the German capital of Berlin has announced plans to set up a special investigative unit to examine thousands of rental contracts for supposedly excessive rents.
Okay I admit it, I only posted this story so I could include the picture which goes with it - as an example of the things demonstrators can be persuaded to do.
Or maybe this is the uniform of the rental police. I hope so.
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I can remember a story of my father's about the wickedness of rent control in his day. It was common, he said, for a chap to buy life insurance and, when he'd died, for his widow to invest that capital in a house - ideally a house near her own. The rent she received would act as her pension. Such widows were ruined by rent control.
In other words, rent controls are not only economic madness but will always be applied in such universal, inflexible ways that they will often be plain cruel.
dearieme - and some of those widows would end up eking out an impoverished life with relatives, or in miserable backstreet lodgings until TB or pneumonia carried them off.
Politics, it's a horrible game.
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