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Red Flag: Does your rent finance the AfD?

Henning Conle is a billionaire landlord who donates money to Germany’s largest far-right party. Nathaniel Flakin tells […]

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Red Flag: The Mietendeckel is out, but the fight continues

The only way to stop exploding rents is to put housing under public control by nationalising Berlin’s […]

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Red Flag: My landlord is suing me

Nathaniel Flakin has been taken to court. Here’s why you should want that, too.

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One year on: Has Berlin’s rent cap actually worked?

It's been a year since Berlin’s Mietendeckel rent freeze came into effect. But has it actually helped […]

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The Mietendeckel is here. What next?

On November 23, more than 340,000 Berlin apartments became eligible for a rent reduction. As we wait […]

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The politics of the rent cap

Joel Dullroy tells the story of the Mietendeckel, a random proposal that stumbled to success – almost […]

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