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Stopping the rent increase doesn’t help anyone.
Do you live in a 70 square meter apartment in an old building? Congratulations. This year you will save about 150 euros. Because the government suspends the increase in standard rents this year. With this, he wants to relieve the tenants in the severe period of Corona. At least the ones who live in the old building. If you live in a new building, you leave empty-handed, despite the pandemic. Above all, the SPÖ spat out great tones here. Although the rate increase in Vienna is apparently going to be achieved. Private owners should give up their benefits.
The ÖVP and the Greens had promised the owners “high legal certainty” in their electoral program. But when all the jubilee years of the contract and property rights are undermined, there is no more talk about it. And tenants will receive the price tag in 2023. Then the price adjustment will be offset, based on inflation for the last three years. Unless it is suspended again. Because in 2024 there will be another election for the National Council. And who knows which party will surpass who on the left.
Unsafe times for homeowners. The socially disadvantaged do not really get help. High housing costs continue to be a problem for them. How about building more apartments? And a fundamental reform of tenant law is long overdue.
(“Die Presse”, print edition, 02/25/2021)
