German Lawmakers Consider Expropriating Private Apartments to House The Poor
14th April 2019
And as the anger over soaring rents grows, so do the protests: last weekend, 50,000 protesters took part in a march against rent increases in Germany’s capital city, which was organized by an affordable housing advocacy group in an effort to collect signatures for a referendum that would push the city to expropriate apartments from large landlords, and transfer some of the city’s increasingly expensive residential rental properties to public ownership.
Note how low-information voters look to government to solve the problems caused by government policy.