Ok I knew it wrongly, thanks for clarification. I made some graphics for #mietenwahnsinn yet never gone deeply in the discussion. My intuition is it is a huge issue in Berlin AND the city has a far more advanced legal framework to fight gentrification and homelessness wrt. other cities in Germany and in Europe.
I agree. The new rent control law is pretty cool and I hope it prevails against the court cases that are currently fought by greedy home owners. However, I feel the issue of homelessness is only tackled implicitly by this. It is never treated like the scandal that it really is…
There was a ‘homelessness census’ at the beginning of the year and around 2000 homeless people were counted in one night, 800 of which were apparently sleeping on the street: https://www.berlin.de/nacht-der-solidaritaet/ergebnisse/
This is far too many but at the same time during the lockdown they could be easily housed in empty hotels I imagine.
Ok I knew it wrongly, thanks for clarification. I made some graphics for #mietenwahnsinn yet never gone deeply in the discussion. My intuition is it is a huge issue in Berlin AND the city has a far more advanced legal framework to fight gentrification and homelessness wrt. other cities in Germany and in Europe.
I agree. The new rent control law is pretty cool and I hope it prevails against the court cases that are currently fought by greedy home owners. However, I feel the issue of homelessness is only tackled implicitly by this. It is never treated like the scandal that it really is… There was a ‘homelessness census’ at the beginning of the year and around 2000 homeless people were counted in one night, 800 of which were apparently sleeping on the street: https://www.berlin.de/nacht-der-solidaritaet/ergebnisse/ This is far too many but at the same time during the lockdown they could be easily housed in empty hotels I imagine.