BERLIN — Berlin’s city government said Friday it is buying some 14,750 apartments from two large corporate landlords for 2.46 billion euros — a deal announced a week before local and national elections as the German capital tries to expand the supply of publicly owned accommodation. Rising rents have been a hot-button issue for years in Berlin, where tenants long …
BERLIN — Affordable housing advocates in Berlin launched a grassroots campaign Saturday to force the city’s government into taking over nearly 250,000 apartments worth billions from corporate owners to curb rising rents in one of Germany’s hottest real estate markets. “There need to be some rules here for the game — it’s a city, not just open land for people …
Uwe Mauch has called Vienna “home” for more than 30 years. When people from other countries visit, they can’t believe it’s so nice and also so cheap.” With its affordable and attractive places to live, the Austrian capital is fast becoming the international gold standard when it comes to public housing, or what Europeans call “social housing” ― in Vienna’s …
