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Interestingly Press article: taz, 16.1.10

An interesting article Chris Villinger in the current taz Series on Social City:
"The Dream of the tenants of the mobile phone tariff

Interesting (Stop Rising rents!" at the bottom of exciting proposals of the Alliance), among others:

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The other worlds of the majority of the population describes the Berlin city researchers Sigmar Gude in his highly detailed studies of individual quarters in Kreuzberg. Previously, the average total rent including charges made from around 25 percent of income, but they are now rapidly approaching the 40 percent mark. Amazingly, it's not just the recipients of state Transfer services, the big losers, but also the lower middle class. All those who earn just enough work to receive any benefits, but where each € more rent for their children's education or simply the daily consumption is missing. Those who have not just the family capital in the background or have inherited, in order to participate in an assembly. Therefore, at present, especially in this environment, the real and perceived pressure so great that he can not keep pace.

seems Against this background, brought forward by the Federal Open Kreuzberg Initiative on Social almost revolutionary, in addition to a coupling of the legal maximum rent increase calls to the inflation rate for a ban on new leases at Mietsprüngen. Also, the current maximum of 11 percent allocation for modernization costs to actual costs will be limited to the owner. If the new windows or heating are paid off, will the rent after presentation of district-green fall again. A simple addition of the Building Code would allow at least one upper rent in redevelopment areas. And in the long term should be, at least in the medium protected areas, "the maximum average rents at 25 percent of average household income are". But this initiative is currently bogged down in political apparatus even his own party.


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Only the Alliance Stop Rising rents "(www.mietenstopp.blogsport.de) managed to develop over the last few months, a set of seven key demands. For the urban researcher Matthias Berndt, the claims formulated therein are characterized mainly by the fact that they "are implemented, clearly expressed and a unique addressees, but also transcend the status quo." Specifically, it called for a new tenancy law similar to the initiative of the Kreuzberg Open, to a prohibition of forced evictions of Hartz IV recipients, a ban on conversion of rental apartments and for property in the re-introduction of the prohibition of misuse Housing.