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This should be an important first step in a conversation about how speculative finance has affected the right to a home, says academic Alexander Vasudevan
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It's rare to find intervention on this scale in the housing market. However, Berlin has imposed a rent cap in response to rising rents, in part induced by the private sector buying up a lot of previously social housing.
As a result, a significant number of Berliners are in line for a rent reduction: however, to what extent is this a short-term fix, rather than a long-term solution to the problem, popular though it may be.