The world is not fair, of course. The object of the policy is to compensate for hardship to intercept, so that no one device into the Offside. Then all of life is better, because there is the security that is lost when some have nothing more to lose.
is to Help: The lack of
Berlin’s housing market, to eliminate unfair. Anyone who has will be given more. The house owners get richer without lifting a Finger, because the market wants it. You benefit from interest rates at the zero point and the lack of housing, the Rent and the value of the houses increase. Anyone who bought a property and it was on Pump, costs you little. As much as never before pays for it, who needs an apartment. This injustice ended, who eliminated the defect. Because if there is more housing, not a tenant pays too much, because enough to go around for all.
moral courage needs it, who has it?
moral courage needs, who is pulling political responsibility, the consequence of these facts and is. There is a lack of it in the coalition?
Berlin’s Senator for urban development has shown courage. She has cut the narrow Band, the construction industry and the local government Association and in the Era of big coalitions, offices of patronage, the acceptance of an Advantage and Berlin Bank affair triggered. She has created with industry associations and lobbyists. And she holds her Hand over the tenant. From political calculation, because this select: The Left is now stronger than the social democracy in the city.
Who is weak, loses
is this Enough? No, and it is only a matter of time until the voters learn it on your own body. Where the state manages the defect, the Weakest of the losers. Houses to buy, commercial expropriate creates apartments, to the tenants to fight. Never the loopholes in the tenancy you can not plug that speculators take advantage of them to benefit from the shortage. The latest Trend: a table, a few chairs, and the apartment is furnished and the rental price brake is released. If you cannot pay, you lose, it will be more, because the income rise is less than the Rent. Who Berlin is? The Owners Of The Houses.
Second half for R2G, the Crucial
R2G starts soon in the second half of the legislature. In the first, it has regulated the housing market. Now, in the second half, this is about the result: the fight of the defect. This is only possible through new construction. Not bashful, on roofs and in gaps, but widely visible: We need to expand the city, new quarters, new settlements.
Why all the to Vienna, look
This requires a political commitment. Just as Vienna did, a century ago, with the “house” that runs to this day: For tens of millions of a new district is created. And the residents do not desire, because they benefit from cheap Rent. Who is shows a warning on the cost of social housing, forgets the cooperatives. You have full coffers and want to build. The Rent for Hartz-IV recipients is too high, but not for police officers and nurses. And the find on the open market with your income, no apartment.
Tempelhof? The city is big enough!
Oh, one more thing: The Tempelhofer field must not be built on, not at any price. The Berliners have voted against it and it would need a very convincing concept in order to create new majorities. In addition, the city is large enough. There is room in Spandau, Pankow, and where else, which will show the residential urban development plan, is nearly done. Because there are many districts, where there is a lack of shops and life, schools and day care centers, enriched the construction of new settlement nuclei. You must explain, communicate, and then the Berlin with. A Team of experts for transport, environment, economy and development, must be found in conversation with districts, places and ideas for the expansion of the city to develop. Driven by the certainty that The struggle against the housing shortage is only win with the new building, even and especially for the most Vulnerable.
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