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The city of Stuttgart has no money to expose excessive rents more easily

2022-05-17T11:56:44.145Z


The city of Stuttgart has no money to expose excessive rents more easily Created: 05/17/2022, 1:49 p.m By: Nadja Pohr The Mietverein Stuttgart calls for the offers of rental apartments to be checked for illegal, excessive prices. However, the city cannot afford special software. © IMAGO/claudiodivizia The city of Stuttgart is lagging behind when it comes to housing construction, despite promis


The city of Stuttgart has no money to expose excessive rents more easily

Created: 05/17/2022, 1:49 p.m

By: Nadja Pohr

The Mietverein Stuttgart calls for the offers of rental apartments to be checked for illegal, excessive prices.

However, the city cannot afford special software.

© IMAGO/claudiodivizia

The city of Stuttgart is lagging behind when it comes to housing construction, despite promises made by the mayor.

New technology is also inevitably dispensed with when rental prices are too high.

Stuttgart - The search for real estate in Stuttgart is often not easy, and the war in Ukraine has made the housing shortage in the region even worse.

Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Frank Nopper (CDU) announced during his election campaign that he would build 2,000 apartments a year.

According to the Stuttgart Rental Association, this goal is currently a long way off.

It is often above all the affordability that is the reason why people fail when looking for an apartment in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg.

However, if landlords offer their apartments in Stuttgart at a reduced price, they can be penalized by the tax office.

Nevertheless, the rental association is demanding stricter controls on the housing market from the city, because there are numerous extortionate rental offers on various platforms.

The city of Stuttgart has no money for software to detect exorbitant rents

Specifically, the offers of rental apartments in various online portals are to be checked for illegal, excessive prices.

In the event of a violation of the law, the landlords are made aware of this with a "blue letter" or, if necessary, receive a fine.

The software from a company from Freiburg can help, but the city of Stuttgart has no money for the program, as the

Stuttgarter Zeitung

reports.

The company Mietenmonitor.de scours the online portals for excessive rents.

The software is already being used in Freiburg and the results found are made available to the city.

The administration then writes to those responsible.

Rolf Gaßmann, the chairman of the Stuttgart Tenants' Association, had suggested this program to the building mayor Peter Pätzold in March.

This means that one can take action “against black sheep on the housing market”.

The city's answer: There would be no "budget funds for outsourcing".

However, the city of Stuttgart welcomes the approach in Freiburg, is in contact with colleagues there and is checking whether a similar approach is a conceivable alternative.

Rent extortion: There is usually another reason behind excessive rents in Stuttgart

A spokesman for the building mayor pointed out that rent increases and usury are "private matters".

In addition, there are often other reasons behind the higher rental prices in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, such as furniture, modernization or a parking space.

The spokesman says that there were usually no objections to the tests carried out by the housing department/subject area housing subsidies.

One doubts that this could recognize the usury program.

However, the founder of Mietmonitor.de, Martin Peters, argues that his software can of course also recognize and distinguish such cases.

Airbnb apartments, shared flats or new buildings to which the rental price brake does not apply are also filtered out using keywords.

Source: merkur

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