[lbo-talk] Germany's new breed of neo-Nazis

[Joel Schalit]

Oh, unfortunately, that makes sense. I'm not 100% clear on all the details, but Berlin landlords prefer vacation over regular apartments, because it allows them things like lower taxation rates (rental apartments, I believe, are taxed at 50%) and more flexibility in turfing out tenants. Predictable.

Joel

On Mar 30, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:


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> Joel:
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>> BTW, Twitter just announced it was moving its European headquarters from London to Berlin. So much for Shoreditch, etc. 
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> Just read in the magazine published by my renter's association about an apartment complex in Mitte where over 250 of the 933 apartments are rented out as vacation apartments to tourists.
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> That's fucking infuriating, given the constant newspaper headlines about the shortage of affordable housing in the city.
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> Unfortunately, expropriation without compensation is forbidden by the constitution.  :-(
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