I know a person like that. And thing is they are just very removed from the situation on one hand, and on the other really believe that this is hurting people, and that deregulating the market would infact make things more affordable, cause more units available or something. Even this guy argues about it in the article. Of course it completely ignores the moment that if things are deregulated a lot of the people who can afford now would not be able to afford after, and you end up with a larger proportion of people fucked over. But it is also true that because it is not extended to the entire market, the part that runs without control is in fact making it more difficult for poorer people to move in. But the answer here is regulate everything, not have a half assed measure or something.
The article was also intentionally misleading which makes me also believe it's bad faith. The rent control is not covering apartments made after 2014 which is a sizeable market considering how fast Berlin has grown. I totally get what you mean though about how they think regulation hurts people though, that ideology can be attributed to a lot of things (but all stem from the same thing.) The other part about that though is they're not too interested in seeing the sucess that rent control has had, their only job here is to nitpick things in a way that makes their argument sound. It's to be a expected though from a Bloomberg writer though, you don't get in that position by actually breaking down topics in a more methodical way.
Oh and I meant that about the bread price thing too. Like their whole concept that it's worse to have empty shelves (i.e. people eating food) as opposed to people not being able to afford food lol
I know a person like that. And thing is they are just very removed from the situation on one hand, and on the other really believe that this is hurting people, and that deregulating the market would infact make things more affordable, cause more units available or something. Even this guy argues about it in the article. Of course it completely ignores the moment that if things are deregulated a lot of the people who can afford now would not be able to afford after, and you end up with a larger proportion of people fucked over. But it is also true that because it is not extended to the entire market, the part that runs without control is in fact making it more difficult for poorer people to move in. But the answer here is regulate everything, not have a half assed measure or something.
The article was also intentionally misleading which makes me also believe it's bad faith. The rent control is not covering apartments made after 2014 which is a sizeable market considering how fast Berlin has grown. I totally get what you mean though about how they think regulation hurts people though, that ideology can be attributed to a lot of things (but all stem from the same thing.) The other part about that though is they're not too interested in seeing the sucess that rent control has had, their only job here is to nitpick things in a way that makes their argument sound. It's to be a expected though from a Bloomberg writer though, you don't get in that position by actually breaking down topics in a more methodical way.
Oh and I meant that about the bread price thing too. Like their whole concept that it's worse to have empty shelves (i.e. people eating food) as opposed to people not being able to afford food lol