@@petersaint5581 there are literally thousands of empty apartments in every major EU and US city simply because of the high price. Corporations can afford to keep them empty until someone who can afford to buy or rent comes along. I work for one of those corporations
personally we have overlooked the correlation to population worldwide conflict and problems - i worked in frankfurt germans despite history nicest people sometimes too generous I felt.. rents in london are now silly like lunatical so i moved to france bought a farm with what in london would buy a bad studio flat and i work via computer - writing design
@@yakub3962 in london we have investors who now own 1,000 properties to rent its like monopoly to them - they have a team who buy property at auction cash, renovate and rent - easy money but rents are out of control
@@BlazeOfGlory742 that is a bit mad - an eco town designed specifically to allow people to work at distance and not travel - with latest tech to link to companies. housing project say 15 miles from town on wework principal .. someone could do it with architect or design background..
Same thing in Geneva, one of several reasons why I plan on moving out. There's empty apartment buildings all over, they keep them empty on purpose to Jack up the prices. One day it will all blow up in their faces, hopefully soon
@@BeorEviols yeah, they have community housing. Vienna was pioneer in the housing sector in the 1930s, until the Nazi party came and dismantled those projects.
The exact same thing is happening here in Montreal, there is a huge housing crisis, nobody can rent or buy anymore, it is becoming more and more like Vancouver
@@alexnezhynsky9707 yes, thankfully my husband and I make more than enough but it is insane how 10 years ago when I just moved here, you could get a 3/12 for about 500$ and now it's about 800$ or more easy.
@@ChelsChels. I'll elaborate for ya. When many people move to these big cities, the demand for housing goes up. Many of these cities that have "progressive" policies make it hard for developers to build more housing. As a result, supply barely increases while demand soars. Therefore house prices increase. Immigrants can make the country stronger, they bring talent and help the economy grow. But when you take in more immigrants than your housing market can handle, u got a problem.
@@RunEnabled I have never taken government aid and I have never complained to anyone. I was just stating a fact. There are people who make $30 an hour struggling with rent. Have you ever been to LA?
@@PassportGaming Don't feed the troll. Probably just a 12 year old that found 4chan and is into right wing propaganda cause mom doesn't love him and daddy only at night.
Vice failed in this video for the fact they only spoke with a small landlord in this interview. This is pathetic given the fact that all the pro-tenant advocates were entirely decrying the big foreign companies the entire time. I don't think that couple owned a shareholder company with their one retirement investment.
This is what happened in Toronto, Canada. The government isn't doing much here. It's a good thing Berliners are fighting for their rights, I hope they succeed.
I live in Buffalo, NY which has alot of affordable housing issues. Rent is astronomical and people are bidding 20 to 50k over asking price to buy a house. But in comparison to Toronto, Ontario - Buffalo, NY is child's play. I feel bad for anyone trying to survive in Toronto right now!
That's not why the rent prices increased. The rent cap which was introduced by the leftist Berlin government was found to be unconstitutional thus tenants have to basically repay what they gained through the rent cap.
Inflation goes along with increased supply of money to the market. It was destined to happen after the government printing this much of currency all over the world.
That is not their problem, they would be idiots if they saw for the good of the other over their own, as if those who look for those houses have mental deficiencies and need others to see for them.
He is a scallywag, for as a renter he is not familiar with the fact that the property in which he resides was acquired licitly from the Jewish communal bodyy and rented to him.
@@archardor3392 They literally won´t, everything they do backfires or gets shut down by the BVerfG. They keep on talking how Company´s shouldn´t have these apartments while Berlin literally lives of Money they don´t earn.
But even Vienna has problems now. Because so many privately rent apartments become more and more unaffordable, the queue for publicly funded housing has become too long. you can expect to wait up to two years to get a subsidized flat by the government and that only if you have lived in Vienna for two consecutive years ...
@@InschrifterOfficial thats because of the policy in other European countries. Without other countries taking care of their own people, they just move to Austria, but eventually Vienna will offer housing to these people. Just that other countries need to stop blaming the migrants AND DO SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM.
@@rh81454 I mean housing that is owned by the city. Vienna builds and buys up buildings to rent them out to people, they are usually much cheaper and more affordable.
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 nah just Leipzig Connewitz but they have always been like that. A rent cap is a good idea, maybe not taking apartments outright but a cap of how many apartments you can own.
The word _’progressive’_ has to come back to normal use. There is little progressive about most _’progressives’_ these days. Downright regressive, I would say.
@Jason Lol wdym it’s always been like that look at Texas and Florida both are fairly republican and thousands of people move there everyday from states like New York California and Oregon And then after a few years or decades of good times. Bad times begin because the city’s been populated by weak men and weak men create bad times Because Bad times make strong men Strong men make good times Good times make weak men Weak men create bad times
Sad to see Berlin became another London where renting has become an extortion and living wages for part of the population isn't enough to cover all the cost of living there.
I would call myself a progressive, but disagree with expropriation. It's just so clear what needs to happen, we need to build more apartments and dwellings in cities. City living is also better for the environment since you don't need a car. We need to get over these onerous regulations that prevent builders from building all but the most luxurious apartments (as that's the only profitable action for them). Why would we expect to put up crazy barriers to building and yet have cheap housing? Or put up rent control and expect others to carry the cost/load of housing people (landlords). It just doesn't make any fucking sense. As much as I side with the moral arguments of affordable housing and maintaining historical buildings, we need to follow the science. I guess that's the problem, we have dogmatic politicians who find it easier to say they can give you something for free rather than looking at the root causes of these issues. Much rather have non-articulate scientists and economists leading the way as even if they disagree, at least they can run tests/experiments to find the best path forward.
Also worth noting is that how difficult it is to create new housing in Berlin. Some requests to build have taken 30 years before being granted by the Berlin city bureaucracy. But it's not only about the overly complicated bureaucracy (German bureaucracy is already a sad reality). I assume many involved in that process are also benefiting from raising prices as they themselves are property owners particularly in the higher City echelon. There's also push back from those who are opposed to building high rises as that would also decrease the value of their property. Overall there are very influential forces at play, silently acting behind the scenes. While the vast majority of Germans are renters (consequence of WW2) the situation won't be solved by simply demanding more affordable housing. Unfortunately, that's not how it works.
I was also wondering what would stop big businesses from pricing out tenants again with such a solution. It would still require government intervention in stopping big business from pricing out tenants in housing, old or new.
@@kenblank9892 Despite the situation that most landlords of residential properties are individuals rather than enterprises, the burden of rent levied on tenants is much higher in Asian cities, even without considering the lower income in Asia. One significant reason worth mentioning is that banks in East Asia are typically quite generous on mortgage loans backed by real estate, compared to other kinds of loans, which is understandable. This grants those people with sound financial backgrounds easy access to real estate.
I guess ANTIFA is "saving" (actually ruining) the Entire world, Europe needs to stop copying America's stupidity Edit: @Gabriel I live 8 Miles away from Portland and ANTIFA are definitely the closests thing to Facists I've ever seen. there Is a big difference of being a so called "Anti-facist" and fighting for equality, and being part of ANTIFA. (which is basically a Facist organization)
The fact that there exists a group in society who believe they are entitled to a large percentage other people's wage, simply because they were able to purchase a commodity necessary for survival is despicable.To all the morons who think that being a landlord is a job, I can safely say in every rental property I have lived in (and I'm going to guess that many people have the same lived experience), Landlords/real estate agents will do almost anything in their power to circumnavigate paying for repairs and maintenance (as such things cut their profits) - the only thing which can reliably bend their will is the Law (ie. heating systems needing to be repaired within a certain time frame etc), and thus greater regulation of the industry needs to exist. We in Berlin tried this already with the Mietendeckel, but as we can see with the repealing of it during a worldwide pandemic (and asking for 6 months+ backpayment during a time when many residents are un- or underemployed), such companies and systems do not operate for the good of society and ultimately should not be in possession of real estate.
As a Berliner I have to say that the best solution to our problem is building more apartments. If the demand is high we need to work with the supply. With the Mietendeckel we would have just fought the symptoms not the problem. Our politics in Berlin are not practical enough. Our senate has the money to build new infrastructure but our tax money goes to bad managed airports or other tax wastes instead. We need to incentivize real estate projects for the middle class and help people with home ownership. I work as a financial consultant and see at first hand that alot of my fellow countrymen have no idea on how to finance a home or how to invest money properly. We german people are usually scared of anything that is „risky“ which is why we are one of the countries with the least home ownership. As a matter of fact there are alot of people who actually could afford an apartment but still decide to pay rent because of ignorance. I love my city as I was born here but I have to admit that our city is neither efficient nor making the right decisions for the future. I really hope for the best.
sure, i'm all for turning half of Tempelhofer Feld into a new housing district. But large Landlords still have to be expropriated. It's an unethical buisness modell and thats just the end of it. Home owners are constantly exproriated in Germany, whenever a new Autobahn is built or a village sits on a coal deposit.
So lets say im a company who build apartments. I build them, and the cost of building them is extremely high. I ask a fair price to you... and you say I CAN'T AFFORD IT. Who's problem is it? The company just made it according to REAL COST. So you also have to pay the REAL COST. So what now ?
Berlin has to be one of the strangest cities i've ever visited. It's not even German, it's just a city of a ton of young left wing people from around the world with a very dark history. Great place to be if you're a history buff, but not a place i'd pick to call home.
Even as a history buff, there are many better cities in Germany to visit especially the medieval villages along the Rhine and in the Black Forest and elsewhere in Bavaria and Westphalia because they weren't destroyed in World War 2
@@atmkilla1 Yes totally people who come from other countries, move to Berlin and can't speak german is german. I've been there, go into a cafe and half the time the sign's in English and they speak English.
It’s happening in Manchester in the UK. Prices are going up due to a lot of people from london moving here leaving a lot more demand for property from elsewhere.
@@boominaughty9531 I understand the virtues of meritocracy but calling homeless people stupid is not going to help anyone. Enlighten Them But don‘t insult them!
@@marcodunn3447 Blacks in America believe that they should have free housing, food, money, "reparations", mandatory selection in being hired in the government and private sector etc..... It goes on and on and on and on.....
@@petersaint5581 No its the greed, how peoples minds become twisted and careless only for profits, its 2021 we still having issues, people are too lazy to change their habits and ways of handling with things, so finally change is coming
"It is fair to the companies to take away the housing they bought" hmm, is it fair for people to go homeless because the cost of housing has become too high for the average citizen to afford? 🤔
We move to cities to get work, but with the price of rent we can never afford to buy, which makes it difficult to ever leave the city. Personally I think it’s a mixture of foreign investors, the very rich and unsustainable immigration levels.
0:51 why its even a problem? If you are living in the same city why its wrong to live with your parents? Not only its sustainable but you also get a chance to spend a lot time with your family
In many Western cultures, becoming an adult (and especially for becoming a man in the old days) requires becoming independent. A person living in their parent's home will have to obey their parent's rules, so they will be dependent on their parents. They will be like a child because the legal difference between a child and an adult is that the child is under the custody (stewardship or rule) of the adult (parent)
Everyone wants to live in the big cities nowadays, thats why the rent is going up. If there would be no demand the rent would be much lower. These people just want to keep their privilege to live in a place where many people want to live without doing much for it and denying others the access to these privileges even if they work a lot for their dream to live there someday. With the strong building regulations in Germany the building of new houses just can't keep up with the huge amount of people that want to live in the city.
Absolutely agree. In 2019, Berlin bought back a portfolio of flats they sold in 2004 for about 2.5x what they got. I bet they could have put that money to better use, eg actually creating additional space/flats. Instead they opted for this populist short-sighted option. Back in 2015 or so there was research elaborating on a cycle of public sector underinvestment in properties, only to be sold to private investors, and then having to buy back certain portfolios due to popular demand. The cycle continues...
I support them in saying that there is a huge need for affordable housing in Berlin. BUT they are demanding the wrong thing. The problem is that there is to much demand for the existing number of aparments as Berlin is rapidly growing. This is simple economics. If you freeze the rents this will solve the problems in the very short term. But in the medium term it will be impossible to find a new apartment because for every free apartment there will be a hundred people waiting (as it is already the case). To solve this the state has to build a LOT of new aparments and offer them to renters for no profit.
It’s shocking to see the disparity in berlin. Look at pilot Patrick and the way he is flaunting his wealth in TH-cam and on Instagram. And there you have people walking on the streets with no money to pay for rent
Well if many people want to live in one single space it will naturally be more expensive. 30km outside of Berlin you can still get apartments for affordable prices and communting by train is not hard.
The problem is regulation. Because they obviously need residences, but when taxes are too high profits get lower, unless they raise the rent. Besides, if it isn't possible to make investments like housing with good profits, they won't happen. Thus the need for places to live rises.
It's happening in every major city, to my knowledge, so I bet you'll find many other countries/news pairs that coincidentally crossover if you check :)
That lady is dead wrong. The build, build, build lady. I watched it happen in New York. These developers promise subsidized housing and low income units but use legal loopholes to get out of it once approved. They want a 80% slave class like they have here in America. Socialism and Communism are not the same thing. How come the older generation can’t separate the two.
Why did you sell the property to the Feudal lords in the first place? They didn't magically acquire the land, someone sold it to them. Should have though in advance for the future generations, sorry.
@@archardor3392 Listen to yourself, "too bad your family is so large,your ancestral property belongs to the far end of the family tree" isn't a reasonable. See landlords have owned large swathes of land since the middle ages.
It's not like these companies are interested in affordable housing anyway. They are buying these houses to sell to other speculators, who are buying to sell to other speculators. The residents demand has no influence on the price anymore since they are eclipsed by speculators.
@@andrewearl8926 so it really doesn't matter wether your government is left or right, if it's capitalist your housing market will be fucked up in every situation
It's not that "even" progressive Berlin is facing a housing crisis, it's in a large part *because* Berlin is so progressive that's making the problem worse. Politicians are constantly blocking the construction of new housing and are being way too slow to issue new building permits and offer new areas for construction. That coupled with the NIMBY attutude of most Berliners has lead to a large housing shortage. A housing shortage leads to rising prices. This is a simple fact that many Berliners refuse to understand. They think that there is magically enough housing for everyone and that it's only because of greedy investors that prices are rising. However, nationalizing housing isn't going to add any housing, it will only change ownership (and will probably make maintenance issues etc way worse). A more nuanced approach is needed here that Berliners are seemingly too simple minded to understand.
That's probably why most of the socialist country's had a 0% homeless rate, the problem isn't being progressive or not, the problem is being capitalist or not, literally every rich capitalist country is having a housing crisis right now, even very right wing ones like The Netherlands and the USA, the only solution is nationalizing the economy since the state can build houses way more efficiently and cheaper than the market can
They need to build more houses especially skycrappers, utilise the sky wisely, it makes no sense Berlin or Germany as a whole dislike skycrappers, in a relatively tiny country with a very dense population...
Homelessness is rising BECAUSE it is Progressive Not despite A free housing market would attract the real estate industry to build, progressive policies drive them away
In India. My appartment would cost 125,000 usd and if I give on rent I would get $350 per month. Bank mortgage would be $1000 per month. Rent is cheaper and super abundant in the town I live. People invest in real estste cause appreciation can be steep. I bought mine in 2017 and it has more than doubled in value
Ultra low interest rates and unorthodox monetary policies, speculators who get mortgage moratorium, immigration policies that have no regard to the working poor, lack of opportunities and upward mobility, houses as commodity, the not in my backyard mentality of those who own houses, archaic/ restrictive land use policies, monopoly by a few builders etc. To sum it up, ENDLESS GREED and CORRUPTION at the HIGHEST LEVELS!
Same issue in Bologna. So damn impossible to live there if you're not a student. All rents go to students cause they can divide the price. How can I afford alone, as a worker, 1300€ rent per month? Fu*king crazy...
But 1300 is divided among 3 students usually. That means, you a single person, are opting to live in a 3 bedroom flat and are unhappy of not being able to afford it. You, alone, as a worker, should simply not live in a 3 bedroom appartment. Tough deal.
@@archardor3392 would be nice if it was a real 3 bedroom flat. But it's often a 20mq single bedroom flat with some totally illegal added beds in the kitchen. Same price for more people, totally without contract most of the time. I decided for my own economic safety to travel by train every day from Rimini (115 km)... It's even cheaper to just rent an AirBnB, but even there, I don't even have the privacy to do anything. As I'm understanding landlords are quite a problem everywhere, they have a great monopoly over these situations and certainly don't help much if not their own wallet (which is right on certain aspects, but not on others)...
I've just graduated and going to start working in Bologna. I've been searching for affordable accomodation but the demand is much higher than what's available so no success. I'm becoming really desperate.
Rent control just makes housing more scarce. It doesn't help anyone in the long run. The answer to the problem is to cut red tape and build more houses, only then will the prices relax.
I think that was why the better solution was to simply seize old properties that have been bought by large rent companies. The big companies can still go ahead and build expensive, high-cost apartments so that they profit from an actual investment rather than leeching off people, while old properties become public, low-income housing since it wasn't going to be renovated anyway. This way the government helps hold the bottom line, big companies actually have to contribute to profit, and more people remain happy.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 you must have missed the part where the video stated the local government sold off the low income housing to investors because of dept. Now the local government wants to take it back for free. This is what happens with to much intervention. Shortages...
@@justinkirk5449 Perhaps I just didn't comprehend all the nuance to that statement, but I still don't see the issue seizing old properties they used to own beyond some large companies getting their feathers ruffled? The companies aren't building low-income housing, yet they're better equipped with the capitol to build more housing and reap the profits from high-income housing, so it seems like a pragmatic approach to build more housing while allowing current Berlin residents more low-income housing to stay living there. I think doing nothing will just end up with big companies owning everything and forcing all the poor people out.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 A. No government should ever seize property at all. Old style communism failed for a reason. B. If poor people get priced out, then they simply have to move. No reason to hold back society. Nobody is forcing people to move to big cities. If you want more housing, then get the government out of the market. In Germany it can take 30 years to get approval to build housing. That’s the real issue.
@@darrenbutler9819 because zoning regulations and rent controls disincentive building housing because building housing is an investment and if people cannot profit from their investments they don't make them in the first place.
@Jason Lol no, if the problem was solely an influx of people, the rising cost of housing would incentivize the building of new housing units with the convenient new manpower you have attracted to your city. If you regulate the market and disincentivise housing AND have an increase in demand you get a supply shortage.
@Jason Lol ur not understanding the point. The point is that these "progressive" cities have policies that lead to the housing crisis. Take Toronto for example. I think the main issue here is the lack of housing supply. We have some of the lowest supply of housing in G7 Countries at 360 homes / 1000ppl. Compared that to the G7 average of 471 homes / 1000 ppl. Yet, there are so many NIMBYs that get in the way of most housing efforts even though they tend to be pro-immigration. They just don't want immigrants they preach to live next to them cuz they wanna "conserve" the feel of their neighborhood.
Yup, a party from the political wants the so called mietendeckel, a law that allows the government to set a maximum a flat can cost, but at the same time the party doesn't allow companies to build at a lot of places because of protecting the environment
Let's take a moment to thank Vice for always airing both sides of argument by interviewing a variety of parties involved. Hey Washington Post/CNN/FOX/NYTimes/Twitter you can learn from VICE!
According to Article 14 and 15 of the Grundgesetz (the german constitution pretty much) it is required that a compensation is given to those being expropriated. It would be more like a forced sale. So it really wouldn't be "completly unfair" for those companies and investors. If such a expropriation would actually happen they couldn't be legally left empty handed.
seriously i'm from Pennsylvania witch is like germany 2.0 and you used to be able to get a nice 2br for 400-600 a month now its like 900 to 1300 and there is no reason taxes weren't even raised its because people don't want to pay their own property taxes.
It's not happening just in Berlin but also Hamburg and other german cities. The same all over Europe, America (continent), East Asia and probably the rest of the world. What'll happen in the next 10 years? Today's really hard even to rent a room (WG)!
In London 1 bedroom £1600per month and rent is very expensive than paying a mortgage..and very hard for younger people to buying your own home but UK ' a Government to allow the first time buyers to put down 5% that is nice..and good luck every one and staying safely..
@Liverbest Gibs Yes they are,the opposite is what caused the crisis in the first place.How you think Singapore solved housing?They nationalized all the land and renting companies under the state and provided good quality housing at a cheap price or free of cost. th-cam.com/video/3dBaEo4QplQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/4epQSbu2gYQ/w-d-xo.html
Maybe, we should have stopped Mario Draghi's money printing press in time to prevent real estate inflation and higher RENTS. (Now we also have crap spaghetti bonds in our ECB as a reward for NW EU taxpayers dragging out Italy's black workers' insolvency.)
Have they tried to, I don't know, build more housing? Many expensive cities have either ran out of room aka Manhattan but many simply have many rules and anti development policies put into place that make housing really expensive.
I never understand how people are never satisfied. They always want more. If you can afford a great lifestyle already, why do you need more money then? Our landlord lives in Paris, probably never visited Berlin and just informed us about a 115€ tax raise / month. That's the maximum raise they could have done, and of course they did. They own 33 apartments in Berlin already.. isn't that enough money ? xD
This title is disgusting, just gives people on the right wing to say “hey see even Germany which is progressive is struggling with a housing crisis.” The problem here is that courts took away the rent cap.
I wish they would introduce laws that say building owners (and any investors in a building) have to themselves be full-time residents of the building to be allowed to own it. I think that would go a long way to not only break up giant monopolistic "land-management" companies, but also to give those owners an active incentive to have nicer, safer buildings (since they have to live there to).
Boomers. A house is a place to live not an investment. Land is somewhere to build something not an investment and planning laws are to make sure things are built properly not to control the supply and make it prohibitively expensive.
If there’s a shortage on affordable housing wouldnt you want to incentivize more development? Seems like threatening expropriation would have the opposite effect
Rent protection will only protect existing renters. That meant new comers will have a tough time finding apartments even if they can and able to pay more. How is it fair?
also they failed to mention that these corporations will get compensation, its not like the city is stealing the buildings. they are just taking ownership of the properties because the corporations affected are known to be neglecting the maintainance of their buildings and using awful measures to force people out of their homes. (like covering windows with brick walls) either to transform them into luxury apartments or re-rent it for a higher price...
So many properties are owned by one dude who rents them out for money. This happens in so many cities. If you get bad luck and are born into a family in the city with no ownership to inherit, good luck in the future when things only get worse.( that's me btw too).
Housing Activist: "Of COURSE stealing the real estate from the people who own it is fine. It's morally commendable in fact. They shouldn't even be allowed to buy these properties in the first place."
It is not "stealing" if the property owner chose to buy property on a land wherein the law of the land allows for the ruler of the land to expropriate the property when they see reason to do so.
The sad thing is that our governments have been complicit in perpetuating this trend over the past decades by continually pumping trillions of dollars into banks and equity markets out of fear of what a market correction would truly mean for the economy. They are in effect enabling and accelerating the widening of the wealth gap. While it's easy enough find scapegoats to blame for the current crisis in housing it is in fact a very complicated situation. One that is perhaps, at least in part, a natural consequence of a financial system that is solely profit driven. A system that reduces everything to dollars and cents and is continually in search of novel ways to squeeze out ever more profits regardless of the human cost.
So what??? Have proper work-approach, valuable skills, perseverance and be smart. These are prerequisites for proper earnings and paying rent or mortgage. But I understand that slackers, so called "artists" and self-proclaimed activists will lose this game. Well, they lose in the game of life anyway :-D
I Live in Berlin. Searching for a single apartment. ~30sqr m, 600-800 cold if you're lucky. Netincome of three times the cold rent required (so a goood salary needed, wages are lower here in the east) Plus heating, electricity, internet, etc = more than half of your 2000+ income gone. But chance to get this flat is 1/50, 1/500 if "wrong name" But a huge amount of luxury flats for investments and return 👍 Eat the rich✊
It seems that this is the problem in every big city around the world. So if you are not that lucky to be living in Vienna for example which government of the city decided hundred years ago to started build subsidize housing (long-term effect) how do you solve the problem ? Is there any other option than Expropriation ? I think most of the people are not willing to give that much power to its governemnt (Local government, public administration.. whatever)..
Define progressive. Many would say that allowing your country to get culturally pillaged because of past guilt is very much *regressive.* Progressive means to progress. Not slowly collapse and disappear.
@Jason Lol _’This’_ is about progressivism. The meaning behind the word. You know how I know? Because I wrote the comment. You’re free to write your own.
@Jason Lol This _’one German city’_ happens to be the financial engine of the EU and Germany’s capital. Europe’s capital. The situation there is emblematic of the larger picture in Western Europe. I don’t suppose you’ve been to Europe but I was born there and the Europe I know doesn’t exist anymore. And I’m not talking about petty things like race. I’m talking about culture. Customs. People. Ethnic inhabitants. The west is the only place on earth which is desperately asking to die out. Every other country has bunkered down and strengthened itself. In places like China a foreigner can very rarely even get citizenship, let alone self segregate in entire neighbourhoods of his countrymen. In the west, we actually import such things en masse. The western guilt and open border policies will see ethnic Europeans become a minority in Europe in about 30 years. It doesn’t bother you that Europe. Its culture. Its people. Its customs will be substituted by the global masses within this century? Europeans are one of the smallest cultural groups on earth. If we were animals, we’d be a protected species. Its a rich and old culture which spawned modern civilisation. I think it should be protected like any other minority. Mediate on that. We’re a global minority. By far.
I had no idea that this is happening , bc mainstream media doesn’t cover these kinds of topics. And if they do, it’s rarely done right, like how Vice is doing it
It’s fucking nuts that this is happening all over the damn place.
@Lewis Sharpe housing price has nothing to do with migrants
@Lewis Sharpe you just want to blame immigrants for everything huh?
@@karimbelba5597 If you inhibit supply and increase demand you get a housing crisis so it kind of does
@@karimbelba5597 it literally does and if you don't think so maybe you should try to read a book once in a while alongside showering
@@petersaint5581 there are literally thousands of empty apartments in every major EU and US city simply because of the high price. Corporations can afford to keep them empty until someone who can afford to buy or rent comes along. I work for one of those corporations
Almost every big city in the world faces a similar problem -
"landlords" are a tribal international people. Of course they're in every major city
personally we have overlooked the correlation to population worldwide conflict and problems - i worked in frankfurt germans despite history nicest people sometimes too generous I felt.. rents in london are now silly like lunatical so i moved to france bought a farm with what in london would buy a bad studio flat and i work via computer - writing design
@@yakub3962 in london we have investors who now own 1,000 properties to rent its like monopoly to them - they have a team who buy property at auction cash, renovate and rent - easy money but rents are out of control
Philadelphia rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is $1000 minimum
@@BlazeOfGlory742 that is a bit mad - an eco town designed specifically to allow people to work at distance and not travel - with latest tech to link to companies. housing project say 15 miles from town on wework principal .. someone could do it with architect or design background..
Same thing in Geneva, one of several reasons why I plan on moving out. There's empty apartment buildings all over, they keep them empty on purpose to Jack up the prices. One day it will all blow up in their faces, hopefully soon
Where are you moving too? I live in Canada and our housing crisis is severe
And the solution is expropriation?
@@kenblank9892 Vienna, I hear only good things about housing there
@@BeorEviols yeah, they have community housing.
Vienna was pioneer in the housing sector in the 1930s, until the Nazi party came and dismantled those projects.
Democrats worst nightmare LMAO
The exact same thing is happening here in Montreal, there is a huge housing crisis, nobody can rent or buy anymore, it is becoming more and more like Vancouver
so dont live there
@@cazador1022 Lol what a stupid comment
@@alexnezhynsky9707 yes, thankfully my husband and I make more than enough but it is insane how 10 years ago when I just moved here, you could get a 3/12 for about 500$ and now it's about 800$ or more easy.
i live in vancouver please help
@@cazador1022 most decent jobs are in big cities
West Europe has been dealing with a housing crisis for at least the last 10 years, I'm happy it's finally getting attention.
Because of the mass immigration. Wake up.
@@j.h.h5747 most houses are empty tho.
@@j.h.h5747 its expensive they need to make it cheaper
@@j.h.h5747 How come? Care to elaborate? Or did you pull that out of your arse?
@@ChelsChels. I'll elaborate for ya. When many people move to these big cities, the demand for housing goes up. Many of these cities that have "progressive" policies make it hard for developers to build more housing. As a result, supply barely increases while demand soars. Therefore house prices increase. Immigrants can make the country stronger, they bring talent and help the economy grow. But when you take in more immigrants than your housing market can handle, u got a problem.
50% of most people’s salaries goes to their rent
In germany it's about 30%
sad, over 4 billion people earns less than 10 dollar per day
@@RunEnabled I have never taken government aid and I have never complained to anyone. I was just stating a fact. There are people who make $30 an hour struggling with rent. Have you ever been to LA?
@@RunEnabled You can’t move anywhere without quitting your job. That’s just common sense. Rent is the same in a 100 mile radius
@@PassportGaming Don't feed the troll. Probably just a 12 year old that found 4chan and is into right wing propaganda cause mom doesn't love him and daddy only at night.
Vice failed in this video for the fact they only spoke with a small landlord in this interview. This is pathetic given the fact that all the pro-tenant advocates were entirely decrying the big foreign companies the entire time. I don't think that couple owned a shareholder company with their one retirement investment.
Knowing those companies, nobody wanted to give an interview or they only gave cookie cutter answers.
AND International Money Laundering , just crime cash/wealth keeping empty and no tenants needed .
@@drewkline96 Sounds cool, if only it were true.
@@BerlinerStadtaffen I mean it's Vice.
This is what happened in Toronto, Canada. The government isn't doing much here. It's a good thing Berliners are fighting for their rights, I hope they succeed.
Their right to what?
@@borndead327 to live somewhere?
@@borndead327 affordable housing???
I live in Buffalo, NY which has alot of affordable housing issues. Rent is astronomical and people are bidding 20 to 50k over asking price to buy a house. But in comparison to Toronto, Ontario - Buffalo, NY is child's play. I feel bad for anyone trying to survive in Toronto right now!
The city of Toronto is currently increase developer taxes. Prices will keep increasing due to the city.
The city of Toronto is a leech.
In Canada some rent has over doubled in less then 7 years. Out of control.
unemployment is on the rise, and increasing housing/rent prices was a reasonable idea? Yes, let's perpetuate the wealth gap.
Unemployment didn’t rise much in Germany. Before COVID it actually decreased for more than 10 years in a row
That's not why the rent prices increased. The rent cap which was introduced by the leftist Berlin government was found to be unconstitutional thus tenants have to basically repay what they gained through the rent cap.
Rent caps only make rentals less available. Simple economics bro
Inflation goes along with increased supply of money to the market. It was destined to happen after the government printing this much of currency all over the world.
That is not their problem, they would be idiots if they saw for the good of the other over their own, as if those who look for those houses have mental deficiencies and need others to see for them.
" If i don't steal your house someone else will "...
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Your friendly neighbour
Yakob - 2021........
@George Washington lets make this guy a viral meme m igniting the flame forward along
He is a scallywag, for as a renter he is not familiar with the fact that the property in which he resides was acquired licitly from the Jewish communal bodyy and rented to him.
Can't move up in society if you can barely afford a box to live in.
It’s literally Berlin citizens own fault. There is nobody else to blame.
@@SeilesMC And it is Berlin's citizens that are fixing that problem.
@Out Of Context you're an obsessed freak lmao 134 comments on here
@@archardor3392 They literally won´t, everything they do backfires or gets shut down by the BVerfG. They keep on talking how Company´s shouldn´t have these apartments while Berlin literally lives of Money they don´t earn.
And why do you need to move up? Just so you have it better and the others can have it worse?
Vice needs to look at vienna, they're doing a great job with public housing
But even Vienna has problems now. Because so many privately rent apartments become more and more unaffordable, the queue for publicly funded housing has become too long. you can expect to wait up to two years to get a subsidized flat by the government and that only if you have lived in Vienna for two consecutive years ...
@@InschrifterOfficial thats because of the policy in other European countries.
Without other countries taking care of their own people, they just move to Austria, but eventually Vienna will offer housing to these people. Just that other countries need to stop blaming the migrants AND DO SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM.
When you say public housing do you mean government controlled housing, or vouchers to assist with rent?
@@rh81454 I mean housing that is owned by the city. Vienna builds and buys up buildings to rent them out to people, they are usually much cheaper and more affordable.
@@InschrifterOfficial achso.
Watching vice on a Saturday so I can have a grim outlook on the world.
There is nothing like it to start the weekend.
At least people are fighting back!
Ha! Antifa is now turning Germany Into CHAZ 😂 I hope Germany sees how stupid they actually are
@@Seraph.G no Sara
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 nah just Leipzig Connewitz but they have always been like that. A rent cap is a good idea, maybe not taking apartments outright but a cap of how many apartments you can own.
"Even Progressive Berlin" as if progressive policies ever lead to upward mobility.
The word _’progressive’_ has to come back to normal use. There is little progressive about most _’progressives’_ these days. Downright regressive, I would say.
@Jason Lol wdym it’s always been like that look at Texas and Florida both are fairly republican and thousands of people move there everyday from states like New York California and Oregon
And then after a few years or decades of good times. Bad times begin because the city’s been populated by weak men and weak men create bad times
Because
Bad times make strong men
Strong men make good times
Good times make weak men
Weak men create bad times
Singapore solved its housing crisis. They just built a bunch of high-rise flats. Who knew that increasing supply can solve the housing crisis?
“But... but muh skyline, but the shade will cover other buildings” progressive want to keep cake and eat it too
Same in Dubai
Less ownership class in Singapore 🇸🇬
Sad to see Berlin became another London where renting has become an extortion and living wages for part of the population isn't enough to cover all the cost of living there.
I would call myself a progressive, but disagree with expropriation. It's just so clear what needs to happen, we need to build more apartments and dwellings in cities. City living is also better for the environment since you don't need a car. We need to get over these onerous regulations that prevent builders from building all but the most luxurious apartments (as that's the only profitable action for them). Why would we expect to put up crazy barriers to building and yet have cheap housing? Or put up rent control and expect others to carry the cost/load of housing people (landlords). It just doesn't make any fucking sense. As much as I side with the moral arguments of affordable housing and maintaining historical buildings, we need to follow the science. I guess that's the problem, we have dogmatic politicians who find it easier to say they can give you something for free rather than looking at the root causes of these issues. Much rather have non-articulate scientists and economists leading the way as even if they disagree, at least they can run tests/experiments to find the best path forward.
Also worth noting is that how difficult it is to create new housing in Berlin. Some requests to build have taken 30 years before being granted by the Berlin city bureaucracy. But it's not only about the overly complicated bureaucracy (German bureaucracy is already a sad reality). I assume many involved in that process are also benefiting from raising prices as they themselves are property owners particularly in the higher City echelon. There's also push back from those who are opposed to building high rises as that would also decrease the value of their property. Overall there are very influential forces at play, silently acting behind the scenes. While the vast majority of Germans are renters (consequence of WW2) the situation won't be solved by simply demanding more affordable housing. Unfortunately, that's not how it works.
More Housing! More housing! More Housing!
This will decrease prices.
I was also wondering what would stop big businesses from pricing out tenants again with such a solution. It would still require government intervention in stopping big business from pricing out tenants in housing, old or new.
Lobbyism is a big problem in Germany
People in East Asia: Hold my beer.
hah
These westerners don't know the real expensive rents and housing prices
Who are the private land owners renting out apartments?
Nah, keep your wuhan-virus.
@@kenblank9892 Despite the situation that most landlords of residential properties are individuals rather than enterprises, the burden of rent levied on tenants is much higher in Asian cities, even without considering the lower income in Asia. One significant reason worth mentioning is that banks in East Asia are typically quite generous on mortgage loans backed by real estate, compared to other kinds of loans, which is understandable. This grants those people with sound financial backgrounds easy access to real estate.
"with a movement like this I don't see how it can fail." well, that shortsightedness will lead to failure, trust.
I guess ANTIFA is "saving" (actually ruining) the Entire world, Europe needs to stop copying America's stupidity
Edit: @Gabriel I live 8 Miles away from Portland and ANTIFA are definitely the closests thing to Facists I've ever seen. there Is a big difference of being a so called "Anti-facist" and fighting for equality, and being part of ANTIFA. (which is basically a Facist organization)
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 so you enjoy paying 50% of your paycheck to rent a 1 bedroom apt?
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 if you are not "anti-fascist", that makes you ?
@@OrangeYTT the problems which mostly cause the high costs actually *are* rent controls, and zoning laws
@@Gabriel-fq8yo Being anti-fascist and being a supporter of ANTIFA are 2 different things.
The fact that there exists a group in society who believe they are entitled to a large percentage other people's wage, simply because they were able to purchase a commodity necessary for survival is despicable.To all the morons who think that being a landlord is a job, I can safely say in every rental property I have lived in (and I'm going to guess that many people have the same lived experience), Landlords/real estate agents will do almost anything in their power to circumnavigate paying for repairs and maintenance (as such things cut their profits) - the only thing which can reliably bend their will is the Law (ie. heating systems needing to be repaired within a certain time frame etc), and thus greater regulation of the industry needs to exist. We in Berlin tried this already with the Mietendeckel, but as we can see with the repealing of it during a worldwide pandemic (and asking for 6 months+ backpayment during a time when many residents are un- or underemployed), such companies and systems do not operate for the good of society and ultimately should not be in possession of real estate.
You are saying that there should be no houses for rent ? Then why don't you just buy an apartment ?
As a Berliner I have to say that the best solution to our problem is building more apartments. If the demand is high we need to work with the supply. With the Mietendeckel we would have just fought the symptoms not the problem. Our politics in Berlin are not practical enough. Our senate has the money to build new infrastructure but our tax money goes to bad managed airports or other tax wastes instead. We need to incentivize real estate projects for the middle class and help people with home ownership. I work as a financial consultant and see at first hand that alot of my fellow countrymen have no idea on how to finance a home or how to invest money properly. We german people are usually scared of anything that is „risky“ which is why we are one of the countries with the least home ownership. As a matter of fact there are alot of people who actually could afford an apartment but still decide to pay rent because of ignorance. I love my city as I was born here but I have to admit that our city is neither efficient nor making the right decisions for the future. I really hope for the best.
sure, i'm all for turning half of Tempelhofer Feld into a new housing district. But large Landlords still have to be expropriated. It's an unethical buisness modell and thats just the end of it. Home owners are constantly exproriated in Germany, whenever a new Autobahn is built or a village sits on a coal deposit.
Same in Toronto. The city enforces high taxes for developers. There's very little Housing to cope with the demand.
So lets say im a company who build apartments. I build them, and the cost of building them is extremely high. I ask a fair price to you... and you say I CAN'T AFFORD IT. Who's problem is it? The company just made it according to REAL COST. So you also have to pay the REAL COST. So what now ?
Similar is happening here in Australia too. Rentals are even becoming impossible to get.
The size of Australia and still having housing problem is just beyond comprehension.
@Sweden not Switzerland Well, they won, what did you expect?
Berlin has to be one of the strangest cities i've ever visited. It's not even German, it's just a city of a ton of young left wing people from around the world with a very dark history. Great place to be if you're a history buff, but not a place i'd pick to call home.
@Marcel Pram it means nothing if they hate Europe
Even as a history buff, there are many better cities in Germany to visit especially the medieval villages along the Rhine and in the Black Forest and elsewhere in Bavaria and Westphalia because they weren't destroyed in World War 2
@@Brian-s3m >Berliners hate Europe
>Berlin is a epicenter for European federalist thought
Ok
'it's not even german'... -.- someone's not getting the idea of migration and multiculturalism
@@atmkilla1 Yes totally people who come from other countries, move to Berlin and can't speak german is german. I've been there, go into a cafe and half the time the sign's in English and they speak English.
It’s happening in Manchester in the UK. Prices are going up due to a lot of people from london moving here leaving a lot more demand for property from elsewhere.
It’s called greed. Don’t call it a “housing shortage” there are plenty vacant houses and apartments.
It's called being dumb and lazy. Not everyone deserves housing
Social mobility is easier now than anytime in history. Go to a trade school for 2 years and boom you make a great living.
@@boominaughty9531 yep. Not everyone deserves to live imagine someone deserving to live with opinions like yours.
@@boominaughty9531 I understand the virtues of meritocracy but calling homeless people stupid is not going to help anyone. Enlighten Them But don‘t insult them!
@@boominaughty9531 damn straight. Its not a right.
In the end, greed will cause the extinction of humanity.
More than likely.
Yeah, pretty greedy to assume you deserve free housing.
@@marcodunn3447 nice stawmen idiot
@@marcodunn3447 Blacks in America believe that they should have free housing, food, money, "reparations", mandatory selection in being hired in the government and private sector etc..... It goes on and on and on and on.....
saying excessive greed is harmful for humanity=communism?
Greed of human beings has no end
It has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with the "progressive" part in the title.
Ayo stop being antisemitic buddy
@@petersaint5581 No its the greed, how peoples minds become twisted and careless only for profits, its 2021 we still having issues, people are too lazy to change their habits and ways of handling with things, so finally change is coming
Entitlement has no end.
@phillycp3 Neither do illegal immigrants
At least Yacob is not gonna steal Berlin’s homes
Lmao...Yacub prolly left his 500k suite in Brooklyn New York to go and steal Fatima's 20k house in sheikh jerrah because his God told him to.😹😹
🤣🤟👌
😂
@@honeybeelove63 More than 500k, I’d say.
U do follow international news. Don't you? 🙌
"It is fair to the companies to take away the housing they bought" hmm, is it fair for people to go homeless because the cost of housing has become too high for the average citizen to afford? 🤔
We move to cities to get work, but with the price of rent we can never afford to buy, which makes it difficult to ever leave the city. Personally I think it’s a mixture of foreign investors, the very rich and unsustainable immigration levels.
0:51 why its even a problem?
If you are living in the same city why its wrong to live with your parents?
Not only its sustainable but you also get a chance to spend a lot time with your family
Because it isn't our culture.
In some cultures they are shamed for living with their parents
And the flats aren't big enough to do that.
In many Western cultures, becoming an adult (and especially for becoming a man in the old days) requires becoming independent. A person living in their parent's home will have to obey their parent's rules, so they will be dependent on their parents. They will be like a child because the legal difference between a child and an adult is that the child is under the custody (stewardship or rule) of the adult (parent)
@@DieNibelungenliad that makes sense
But I always wonder who takes care of elderly people then
Do they all end up in old age homes?
Everyone wants to live in the big cities nowadays, thats why the rent is going up. If there would be no demand the rent would be much lower. These people just want to keep their privilege to live in a place where many people want to live without doing much for it and denying others the access to these privileges even if they work a lot for their dream to live there someday. With the strong building regulations in Germany the building of new houses just can't keep up with the huge amount of people that want to live in the city.
Absolutely agree.
In 2019, Berlin bought back a portfolio of flats they sold in 2004 for about 2.5x what they got. I bet they could have put that money to better use, eg actually creating additional space/flats. Instead they opted for this populist short-sighted option. Back in 2015 or so there was research elaborating on a cycle of public sector underinvestment in properties, only to be sold to private investors, and then having to buy back certain portfolios due to popular demand. The cycle continues...
That's why I live out in the countryside..
I support them in saying that there is a huge need for affordable housing in Berlin. BUT they are demanding the wrong thing. The problem is that there is to much demand for the existing number of aparments as Berlin is rapidly growing.
This is simple economics. If you freeze the rents this will solve the problems in the very short term. But in the medium term it will be impossible to find a new apartment because for every free apartment there will be a hundred people waiting (as it is already the case). To solve this the state has to build a LOT of new aparments and offer them to renters for no profit.
I bet these people would feel different if they were the ones that owned these apartment buildings. Pay your fking rent
I heard refrigerator boxes are nice this time of year.
naw fam those are too expensive
meanwhile social housing estates get knocked down and luxery housing is built in there place
Exactly!!
rent control always ends bad
Pandemic is making hard to live everywhere...
Lockdowns are
Not the pandemic. Greed is
Problem was alive and well pre covid.
No it is not. It just made it worse. It was slowly getting there but it got thrusted forward
@@thatsnodildo1974 late stage capitalism is the reason for this suffering
It’s shocking to see the disparity in berlin. Look at pilot Patrick and the way he is flaunting his wealth in TH-cam and on Instagram. And there you have people walking on the streets with no money to pay for rent
Well if many people want to live in one single space it will naturally be more expensive.
30km outside of Berlin you can still get apartments for affordable prices and communting by train is not hard.
The problem is capitalism! Not a pandemic that in other non capitalist countries, has already stopped.
@Keenan Wong yes
The problem is regulation. Because they obviously need residences, but when taxes are too high profits get lower, unless they raise the rent. Besides, if it isn't possible to make investments like housing with good profits, they won't happen. Thus the need for places to live rises.
DW show Poor in New York,Vice show house crises in Berlin.What a coincidence?
no it isnt, the housing crisis is allover the world.
It's a global phenomena
It's happening in every major city, to my knowledge, so I bet you'll find many other countries/news pairs that coincidentally crossover if you check :)
That lady is dead wrong. The build, build, build lady. I watched it happen in New York. These developers promise subsidized housing and low income units but use legal loopholes to get out of it once approved. They want a 80% slave class like they have here in America. Socialism and Communism are not the same thing. How come the older generation can’t separate the two.
Is it fair to take away land from Feudal lords?
That is the system of land ownership we are talking. The nobles are just called shareholders now.
if they paid for the land, it's theirs. if you a poor man cannot afford it, how is it their fault?
Most buildings aren't owned by huge corporations, but by small time landlords. How are they "feudal lords"?
Imagine knowing this little lmao
Why did you sell the property to the Feudal lords in the first place? They didn't magically acquire the land, someone sold it to them. Should have though in advance for the future generations, sorry.
@@archardor3392 Listen to yourself, "too bad your family is so large,your ancestral property belongs to the far end of the family tree" isn't a reasonable. See landlords have owned large swathes of land since the middle ages.
I can’t imagine that threats of expropriation will increase investment into new affordable housing developments
That’s part of the problem in Berlin. The other is that the locals often object to new housing projects because they don’t want any change
It's not like these companies are interested in affordable housing anyway. They are buying these houses to sell to other speculators, who are buying to sell to other speculators. The residents demand has no influence on the price anymore since they are eclipsed by speculators.
Lol, this is stupid
Its almost like being progressive doesnt create more houses
@George Washington yeah, thats what I said.
It's almost like having capitalism automatically means you're having a housing crisis
@@Rezistenza1998 in nations where housing supply isnt artifically limited they have no housing problems
@@andrewearl8926 bruh the Netherlands has literally a gigantic housing crisis BECAUSE they privatised and decentralised everything
@@andrewearl8926 so it really doesn't matter wether your government is left or right, if it's capitalist your housing market will be fucked up in every situation
It's not that "even" progressive Berlin is facing a housing crisis, it's in a large part *because* Berlin is so progressive that's making the problem worse. Politicians are constantly blocking the construction of new housing and are being way too slow to issue new building permits and offer new areas for construction. That coupled with the NIMBY attutude of most Berliners has lead to a large housing shortage. A housing shortage leads to rising prices. This is a simple fact that many Berliners refuse to understand. They think that there is magically enough housing for everyone and that it's only because of greedy investors that prices are rising. However, nationalizing housing isn't going to add any housing, it will only change ownership (and will probably make maintenance issues etc way worse). A more nuanced approach is needed here that Berliners are seemingly too simple minded to understand.
That's probably why most of the socialist country's had a 0% homeless rate, the problem isn't being progressive or not, the problem is being capitalist or not, literally every rich capitalist country is having a housing crisis right now, even very right wing ones like The Netherlands and the USA, the only solution is nationalizing the economy since the state can build houses way more efficiently and cheaper than the market can
They need to build more houses especially skycrappers, utilise the sky wisely, it makes no sense Berlin or Germany as a whole dislike skycrappers, in a relatively tiny country with a very dense population...
Low IQ comment.
@@dylanhoward7668 shut up!
I love how these activists have shamelessly given up on capitalism.
who is living day by day right now?
Well I can’t live tomorrow yet...
@@stinkbaitdawelder2964 i wouldn't suggest it any ways, will just live with anxiety.
I!
Me
@@JP-br4mx Get off youtube and do something then.
Homelessness is rising BECAUSE it is Progressive
Not despite
A free housing market would attract the real estate industry to build, progressive policies drive them away
Rents go up, average income stays the same
Well.. I guess landlords skipped a lot of math classes
The government the problem not landlords
In India. My appartment would cost 125,000 usd and if I give on rent I would get $350 per month. Bank mortgage would be $1000 per month. Rent is cheaper and super abundant in the town I live. People invest in real estste cause appreciation can be steep. I bought mine in 2017 and it has more than doubled in value
Ultra low interest rates and unorthodox monetary policies, speculators who get mortgage moratorium, immigration policies that have no regard to the working poor, lack of opportunities and upward mobility, houses as commodity, the not in my backyard mentality of those who own houses, archaic/ restrictive land use policies, monopoly by a few builders etc. To sum it up, ENDLESS GREED and CORRUPTION at the HIGHEST LEVELS!
3:42 “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the companies?!”
Same issue in Bologna. So damn impossible to live there if you're not a student. All rents go to students cause they can divide the price. How can I afford alone, as a worker, 1300€ rent per month? Fu*king crazy...
Bruhhh
But 1300 is divided among 3 students usually. That means, you a single person, are opting to live in a 3 bedroom flat and are unhappy of not being able to afford it. You, alone, as a worker, should simply not live in a 3 bedroom appartment. Tough deal.
@@archardor3392 would be nice if it was a real 3 bedroom flat. But it's often a 20mq single bedroom flat with some totally illegal added beds in the kitchen. Same price for more people, totally without contract most of the time. I decided for my own economic safety to travel by train every day from Rimini (115 km)... It's even cheaper to just rent an AirBnB, but even there, I don't even have the privacy to do anything. As I'm understanding landlords are quite a problem everywhere, they have a great monopoly over these situations and certainly don't help much if not their own wallet (which is right on certain aspects, but not on others)...
@@MetoFulcurm I blame the landlords and their fu*ked up contracts...
I've just graduated and going to start working in Bologna. I've been searching for affordable accomodation but the demand is much higher than what's available so no success. I'm becoming really desperate.
Rent control just makes housing more scarce. It doesn't help anyone in the long run. The answer to the problem is to cut red tape and build more houses, only then will the prices relax.
Progressivism is the reason there's a shortage. Do you think rent caps encourage new development to meet increased demand?
I think that was why the better solution was to simply seize old properties that have been bought by large rent companies. The big companies can still go ahead and build expensive, high-cost apartments so that they profit from an actual investment rather than leeching off people, while old properties become public, low-income housing since it wasn't going to be renovated anyway. This way the government helps hold the bottom line, big companies actually have to contribute to profit, and more people remain happy.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 you must have missed the part where the video stated the local government sold off the low income housing to investors because of dept. Now the local government wants to take it back for free. This is what happens with to much intervention. Shortages...
@@justinkirk5449 Perhaps I just didn't comprehend all the nuance to that statement, but I still don't see the issue seizing old properties they used to own beyond some large companies getting their feathers ruffled?
The companies aren't building low-income housing, yet they're better equipped with the capitol to build more housing and reap the profits from high-income housing, so it seems like a pragmatic approach to build more housing while allowing current Berlin residents more low-income housing to stay living there.
I think doing nothing will just end up with big companies owning everything and forcing all the poor people out.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 A. No government should ever seize property at all. Old style communism failed for a reason. B. If poor people get priced out, then they simply have to move. No reason to hold back society. Nobody is forcing people to move to big cities. If you want more housing, then get the government out of the market. In Germany it can take 30 years to get approval to build housing. That’s the real issue.
@@justinkirk5449 agreed
"Even" progressive Berlin? Wouldn't you expect progressive places to be disproportionately more likely to have housing crises?
Explain how.
@@darrenbutler9819 Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Vancouver, Belin, Auckland, Hong Kong ... u need more?
@@darrenbutler9819 because zoning regulations and rent controls disincentive building housing because building housing is an investment and if people cannot profit from their investments they don't make them in the first place.
@Jason Lol no, if the problem was solely an influx of people, the rising cost of housing would incentivize the building of new housing units with the convenient new manpower you have attracted to your city. If you regulate the market and disincentivise housing AND have an increase in demand you get a supply shortage.
@Jason Lol ur not understanding the point. The point is that these "progressive" cities have policies that lead to the housing crisis. Take Toronto for example. I think the main issue here is the lack of housing supply. We have some of the lowest supply of housing in G7 Countries at 360 homes / 1000ppl. Compared that to the G7 average of 471 homes / 1000 ppl. Yet, there are so many NIMBYs that get in the way of most housing efforts even though they tend to be pro-immigration. They just don't want immigrants they preach to live next to them cuz they wanna "conserve" the feel of their neighborhood.
WOW! "Progressivism" doesn't solve the housing crisis, who would have thought!
Yup, a party from the political wants the so called mietendeckel, a law that allows the government to set a maximum a flat can cost, but at the same time the party doesn't allow companies to build at a lot of places because of protecting the environment
Let's take a moment to thank Vice for always airing both sides of argument by interviewing a variety of parties involved. Hey Washington Post/CNN/FOX/NYTimes/Twitter you can learn from VICE!
i am proud that so many of these people were so well educated!
there's hope for our country yet
According to Article 14 and 15 of the Grundgesetz (the german constitution pretty much) it is required that a compensation is given to those being expropriated. It would be more like a forced sale. So it really wouldn't be "completly unfair" for those companies and investors. If such a expropriation would actually happen they couldn't be legally left empty handed.
Basically a sort of imminent domain
seriously i'm from Pennsylvania witch is like germany 2.0 and you used to be able to get a nice 2br for 400-600 a month now its like 900 to 1300 and there is no reason taxes weren't even raised its because people don't want to pay their own property taxes.
In what World is Pennsylvania germany 2.0?
It's even higher in southeastern PA, yet wages haven't budged at all. I'm moving as soon as possible.
it's Feb 2024 and the housing shortage issue is still going on ...
Same is happening in Canada. The average home price doubled. Rich get richer as they say...
That's why I now hate rich people
The government get richer
remember whenever one weight on the scale is too heavily weighed towards it, violence balances it back out
It's not happening just in Berlin but also Hamburg and other german cities. The same all over Europe, America (continent), East Asia and probably the rest of the world. What'll happen in the next 10 years? Today's really hard even to rent a room (WG)!
@Dera Kioandria Williams LOL.
@Dera Kioandria Williams Stop, I’m laughing to hard and it’s early morning.
In London 1 bedroom £1600per month and rent is very expensive than paying a mortgage..and very hard for younger people to buying your own home but UK ' a Government to allow the first time buyers to put down 5% that is nice..and good luck every one and staying safely..
Ireland has the same problem. We need to stand up!
Rent control is no solution for a housing supply problem. The country needs to deregulate and lower taxes for home builders.
@Liverbest Gibs Yes they are,the opposite is what caused the crisis in the first place.How you think Singapore solved housing?They nationalized all the land and renting companies under the state and provided good quality housing at a cheap price or free of cost.
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Buying housing in America is hard too. I stand with how these people feel. My family have been searching for a house but it's almost impossible now
@Saveliy Filistovich I live in Ohio. The houses around here are like 50 thousand to 100 thousand
@@Fisforfriday202 not for me and my family. Smh
Housing is healthcare.
Maybe, we should have stopped Mario Draghi's money printing press in time to prevent real estate inflation and higher RENTS. (Now we also have crap spaghetti bonds in our ECB as a reward for NW EU taxpayers dragging out Italy's black workers' insolvency.)
"people coming in with all genders.... races, etc.." remind me please, how many genders are there?
72?
🤣😂
Over 9000.
Lol
"He" , "she", and "it" lol
Learn to build your own house, grow your own food, make your own drugs, craft your own guns or other weapons. Be self sufficient, become ungovernable.
Based and might I add quite redpilled
Have they tried to, I don't know, build more housing? Many expensive cities have either ran out of room aka Manhattan but many simply have many rules and anti development policies put into place that make housing really expensive.
I never understand how people are never satisfied. They always want more. If you can afford a great lifestyle already, why do you need more money then? Our landlord lives in Paris, probably never visited Berlin and just informed us about a 115€ tax raise / month. That's the maximum raise they could have done, and of course they did. They own 33 apartments in Berlin already.. isn't that enough money ? xD
You look at how much debt middle class & upper class have in Germany
It's. Supply and demand. More rooms for people to live in = lower cost.
This title is disgusting, just gives people on the right wing to say “hey see even Germany which is progressive is struggling with a housing crisis.” The problem here is that courts took away the rent cap.
I wish they would introduce laws that say building owners (and any investors in a building) have to themselves be full-time residents of the building to be allowed to own it. I think that would go a long way to not only break up giant monopolistic "land-management" companies, but also to give those owners an active incentive to have nicer, safer buildings (since they have to live there to).
my solidarity to berlin's citizens, I hope they can fight it with a good end
Boomers. A house is a place to live not an investment. Land is somewhere to build something not an investment and planning laws are to make sure things are built properly not to control the supply and make it prohibitively expensive.
If there’s a shortage on affordable housing wouldnt you want to incentivize more development? Seems like threatening expropriation would have the opposite effect
Need affordable housing built not luxury condos
Rent protection will only protect existing renters. That meant new comers will have a tough time finding apartments even if they can and able to pay more. How is it fair?
also they failed to mention that these corporations will get compensation, its not like the city is stealing the buildings. they are just taking ownership of the properties because the corporations affected are known to be neglecting the maintainance of their buildings and using awful measures to force people out of their homes. (like covering windows with brick walls) either to transform them into luxury apartments or re-rent it for a higher price...
So many properties are owned by one dude who rents them out for money. This happens in so many cities. If you get bad luck and are born into a family in the city with no ownership to inherit, good luck in the future when things only get worse.( that's me btw too).
Are you jewish?
@@ninjamusic9554 what a dumb question.
I fixed this problem , moved in RV
Wrong
Housing Activist: "Of COURSE stealing the real estate from the people who own it is fine. It's morally commendable in fact. They shouldn't even be allowed to buy these properties in the first place."
It is not "stealing" if the property owner chose to buy property on a land wherein the law of the land allows for the ruler of the land to expropriate the property when they see reason to do so.
The "expropriation" being spoken of will be compensated.
What happened?? Is Jacob also taking over house in Berlin?
what arre you talking about? The name is "capitalism".
@@jackfirmin5814 even much worse then
LMAO
The sad thing is that our governments have been complicit in perpetuating this trend over the past decades by continually pumping trillions of dollars into banks and equity markets out of fear of what a market correction would truly mean for the economy. They are in effect enabling and accelerating the widening of the wealth gap.
While it's easy enough find scapegoats to blame for the current crisis in housing it is in fact a very complicated situation. One that is perhaps, at least in part, a natural consequence of a financial system that is solely profit driven. A system that reduces everything to dollars and cents and is continually in search of novel ways to squeeze out ever more profits regardless of the human cost.
The world needs to watch this and pay attention. Way to go Berlin
Too many empty houses, too many homeless while landlords own multiple houses and get richer.
So what??? Have proper work-approach, valuable skills, perseverance and be smart. These are prerequisites for proper earnings and paying rent or mortgage.
But I understand that slackers, so called "artists" and self-proclaimed activists will lose this game. Well, they lose in the game of life anyway :-D
I Live in Berlin.
Searching for a single apartment.
~30sqr m, 600-800 cold if you're lucky.
Netincome of three times the cold rent required (so a goood salary needed, wages are lower here in the east)
Plus heating, electricity, internet, etc = more than half of your 2000+ income gone.
But chance to get this flat is 1/50, 1/500 if "wrong name"
But a huge amount of luxury flats for investments and return 👍
Eat the rich✊
It seems that this is the problem in every big city around the world. So if you are not that lucky to be living in Vienna for example which government of the city decided hundred years ago to started build subsidize housing (long-term effect) how do you solve the problem ? Is there any other option than Expropriation ? I think most of the people are not willing to give that much power to its governemnt (Local government, public administration.. whatever)..
Define progressive. Many would say that allowing your country to get culturally pillaged because of past guilt is very much *regressive.* Progressive means to progress. Not slowly collapse and disappear.
@Jason Lol _’This’_ is about progressivism. The meaning behind the word. You know how I know? Because I wrote the comment. You’re free to write your own.
@Jason Lol No you’re not.
@Jason Lol This _’one German city’_ happens to be the financial engine of the EU and Germany’s capital. Europe’s capital. The situation there is emblematic of the larger picture in Western Europe. I don’t suppose you’ve been to Europe but I was born there and the Europe I know doesn’t exist anymore. And I’m not talking about petty things like race. I’m talking about culture. Customs. People. Ethnic inhabitants. The west is the only place on earth which is desperately asking to die out. Every other country has bunkered down and strengthened itself. In places like China a foreigner can very rarely even get citizenship, let alone self segregate in entire neighbourhoods of his countrymen. In the west, we actually import such things en masse. The western guilt and open border policies will see ethnic Europeans become a minority in Europe in about 30 years. It doesn’t bother you that Europe. Its culture. Its people. Its customs will be substituted by the global masses within this century? Europeans are one of the smallest cultural groups on earth. If we were animals, we’d be a protected species. Its a rich and old culture which spawned modern civilisation. I think it should be protected like any other minority. Mediate on that. We’re a global minority. By far.
@Jason Lol That’s because you’re proud of being intellectually lazy. Only really being able to *feign* intelligence.
When I couldn't pay my rent anymore, I just googled "places where a minimum wage worker can afford an apartment" and moved to one of them.
I had no idea that this is happening , bc mainstream media doesn’t cover these kinds of topics. And if they do, it’s rarely done right, like how Vice is doing it
At least in Germany there has been a lot of media coverage. Vice is rather late to the game
I remember this reporter when she was at Al Jazeera, she has the biggest balls in all of journalism