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Cake day: May 20th, 2020
  • blitztoOpen Source•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I’m getting a ‘Failed to load “unity-gtk-module”’ message among other things… I’m a bit too lazy to file a bug report atm since I have never even used foliate yet. I’ll try to install it on Manjaro

  • blitztoAsklemmy•What social issues in your country seem to never be addressed?
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    5 years ago

    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.

  • blitztoAsklemmy•What social issues in your country seem to never be addressed?
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    5 years ago

    I’m not sure what you are referring to. (1) I think in Germany the state can expropriate legal persons in general provided the state compensates the owners. This is not specific to Berlin (2) There is a large social movement, especially in Berlin, for expropriating big real estate corporations like ‘Deutsche Wohnen’ but this is not law yet. (3) The Berlin City Government has passed a law for stopping rent hikes (‘Mietpreisbremse’, literal translation: rent brake) which freezes rents in its first stage (now) and also makes certain over average rents illegal in a second stage (planned in six months or so). I wrote this from memory - so I might be wrong in some details. Let me know if you want me to back up some point with links :)