To date, politicians have tried to alleviate the housing shortage, especially in conurbations, with new buildings. Three scientists think this is the wrong way.
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Munich Few issues are currently the subject of more bitter debate than housing and the associated questions of where new houses can be built and what living space can cost. Researchers at IREBS, the real estate institute at the University of Regensburg, have now added a radical proposal to this discussion.
The thesis of the professors around the real estate scientist Steffen Sebastian: There is no need for new apartments, the existing ones just have to be better distributed. In order to achieve this, tenants with cheap, old leases should pay significantly more and be motivated to make room for families. The profits that the landlords earn from the higher rents are to be skimmed off via a landlord soli and flow to significantly more people than before as housing benefit.
This gigantic redistribution is intended to make the housing market fairer, but it is met with resistance in many places. The Handelsblatt has questioned critics and supporters and shows alternatives how the housing market can be fairer.
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