Housing: Senate wants to freeze rents from state-owned companies

Building Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) wants to extend the moratorium on terminations for state-owned housing companies to the whole of 2023 and also rule out rent increases until then.

Housing: Senate wants to freeze rents from state-owned companies

Building Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) wants to extend the moratorium on terminations for state-owned housing companies to the whole of 2023 and also rule out rent increases until then. He suggested that to the governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD), Geisel announced on Thursday. "The Governing Mayor has agreed to that." In September, as part of a relief package, the Senate decided that tenants in arrears with payments could not be given notice of temporarily due to the significant increase in energy prices. The regulation should initially apply for six months.

According to Geisel, it applies to 360,000 apartments across Berlin and affects 700,000 tenants. Commercial tenants should also benefit from this. The SPD politician called the Senate resolution exemplary nationwide. The state provides the necessary funds to help tenants in emergencies.

So far, the resolution has been limited to the six state-owned companies such as Degewo and Howoge plus Berlinovo Immobilien GmbH, which is also state-owned.

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