The Berlin Senate wants to control landlords more closely. “We are working on a regulation that aims to improve the control of concluded rental agreements – to comply with the rules in the Civil Code, to comply with the rental price brake and the rent index”.
The said the senator for urban development, construction and housing, Andreas Geisel, the “world”.
The federal government is responsible for legislation, “but we can ensure stronger public control at state level,” said the SPD senator.
Because rents for new apartments have risen particularly quickly, many Berliners would no longer move. “Actually, the rental price brake that applies nationwide should slow down the increase in new contract rents. But we keep finding that this doesn’t work, that the price brake is being circumvented and tenants are forced to accept unacceptably high prices,” said Geisel.
This Monday, the Alliance for New Housing and Affordable Housing is meeting in Berlin for the second time (10 a.m.). The round with representatives from politics, the housing industry and associations should help to get housing construction in the capital going and slow down further rent increases.
The red-green-red Senate wants everyone involved to reach a binding agreement by the end of June on how new apartments can be built faster and tenants can be protected from significant rent increases.