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Berlin (dpa / bb) - After the end of the Berlin rent cap, the opposition in the House of Representatives made serious accusations against the Senate and the coalition. Red-Red-Green violated the constitution with sight, split the city and left a heap of broken glass, it was said from the ranks of the CDU, AfD and FDP. Tenants would now have to foot the bill for this irresponsible approach. To solve the living space problem, more new buildings are absolutely necessary. MPs from the SPD, the Left and the Greens, as well as the Senator for Urban Development Sebastian Scheel (Left), on the other hand, defended their approach and called on the federal government to do significantly more to protect tenants.
“You tried to stir up this city.
You have split them in terms of the class struggle in tenants and landlords, "said CDU parliamentary group leader Burkard Dregger to the address of red-red-green.
The rent cap law aroused unrealizable expectations and caused great disappointments for many people.
"Your rent cap law is a program to promote disenchantment with politics," said Dregger.
«Your credibility is completely gone.
Nobody in Berlin who is still in their right mind will make a promise from you. "
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Dregger's FDP colleague Sebastian Czaja spoke of a “high-risk political game of chance” at the expense of the tenants.
So far, Red-Red-Green has not apologized to them, but is looking for the error in the rule of law.
AfD parliamentary group leader Georg Pazderski said: “The Senate deliberately played a contemptuous game with tenants in this city.
That testifies to an inhumane political self-image. "
From Pazderski's point of view, red-red-green is now even a case for the protection of the constitution.
“Every small demonstration by actual or supposed extremists is observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in order to protect our democracy.
But if an entire state government and the majority of the members of parliament disregard the constitution and mislead the citizens, then that is obviously just a trivial offense. "
Despite the defeat of the lid, Senator Scheel considers more state intervention in the housing market to be necessary - nationwide.
"Regulation is on the agenda," he said.
“We have to make sure that market forces cannot simply act without limits.
And for this we need a regulatory framework that also deserves the name, ”said Scheel.
«It cannot be that cheap renovation results in the most expensive rents.
Because that is the consequence of the rental price brake in the federal government. "
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The Federal Constitutional Court had declared the rent cap with state upper limits, which had been in force since February 2020, to be void a week ago because the federal government was responsible for tenancy law.
People who live in apartments with a capped or reduced rent must now expect their landlords to demand additional payments.
The Senate is planning an aid fund from which those affected in financial emergencies will receive interest-free loans in order to be able to settle the additional payment quickly.
Scheel, like other politicians of the red-red-green coalition, assured, referring to the fund, that the Senate would not abandon affected tenants.
At the same time, they derived the conclusion from the court ruling that the federal government must now improve the regulatory instruments or enable the states to take their own measures by means of opening clauses.
After all, the Karlsruhe judges decided on the distribution of competences between the federal and state governments in tenancy law, but said nothing about the constitutionality of the cover as an instrument.
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Berlin is a hotspot for rent development, said the left-wing parliamentary group leader Anne Helm.
The rent brake is "toothless and inadequate".
SPD parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh promised: “We will now fight even harder to protect tenants from greed for profit.
The idea of the rent cover is not dead. "
Green top candidate Bettina Jarasch called for a quick implementation of a rental and housing register for Berlin, which should create transparency for the capital's housing market.
This should not wait until the next legislature.
"The rents eat up an ever larger proportion of people's income," criticized Jarasch.
However, new construction alone does not solve this problem.
There is also a need for more political control in building.
Jarasch called for the ever higher land prices to be taken into account.
“Selling the city to the highest bidder is not the solution.
The land is only allowed to grant land under heritable building rights. "
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