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Mietchaos in Berlin, Was ist euch passiert? // Rental Chaos in Berlin, What's your story?
Morgen Abend streame… (English below) Musstest du schon mal absurd hohe Mieten zahlen? Oder bist du aus deiner Wohnung geflogen, weil die Miete teurer wurde? Hier kannst du deine Geschichte loswerden!
Morgen Abend streamen wir auf Twitch zu dem Thema "Hohe Mieten: Ist die Politik planlos?"👉 https://1.ard.de/puw_mieten?r=ber
Schreib doch gern hier im Sub, welche krassen Erfahrungen du auf dem Berliner Wohnungsmarkt gemacht hast! Oder schalte dich um 20:15 Uhr live dazu 😊
Dort sprechen wir über eure Erfahrungen. Mit dabei sind u. A. Patricia Seelig (Jusos) und Gerrit Terfehr (Bauunternehmer und Vermieter).
Kurz zum Format: Politik-Talks gibt's viele, hier kannst du wirklich mitreden! Bei „Politik & wir" reden wir zwei Stunden lang über aktuelle politische Themen und diskutieren Lösungsansätze. Und du kannst dich live im Gespräch zugeschalten, mitdiskutieren oder Fragen stellen, und im Chat dabei sein.
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Rents in Berlin keep rising and rising: For average earners, housing is slowly becoming a luxury. Have you had to pay absurdly high rents? Or were you forced out of your apartment because the rent got too expensive? Share your story here!
Tomorrow, we're streaming on Twitch about the topic: "High Rents: Is Politics Clueless?" 👉 https://1.ard.de/puw_mieten?r=ber
Feel free to share your crazy experiences on the Berlin housing market in this thread! Or join us live at 8:15 PM 😊 Among others, Patricia Seelig (youth organization of Social Democrats) and Gerrit Terfehr (property developer and landlord) will be taking part.
A quick note about the format: There are plenty of political talks, but here, you can actually join the conversation! In "Politics & wir," we talk for two hours about current political issues and discuss potential solutions. You can participate live, debate, ask questions, or join the chat.
The whole "provision" thing is such a scam, and it's wild how normalized it's become. I was looking in Prenzlauer Berg back in 2019 and a broker tried to charge me 3.5 cold rents as a commission for an apartment that was listed on Immoscout already. When I said no, he literally told me "good luck finding something else then" and hung up. Ended up finding a place in Lichtenberg through a WG-cast ad on eBay Kleinanzeigen, 550 warm for a 2-room with a balcony, no broker involved. The landlord is a older guy who lives downstairs and handles everything himself, which has its own quirks but at least the rent hasn't gone up in four years.
I moved into a place in Neukölln in 2018 for 680 warm, two rooms. By 2022 the landlord wanted 980 after "modernization" (new kitchen tiles and a coat of paint). I fought it with the Mieterverein and got it down to 820, but honestly the stress wasn't worth it. The worst part was watching the same unit in my building go for 1.200 to a new tenant six months later.
My partner and I spent eight months in a temporary sublet in Wedding while we looked for something permanent. We had a solid combined income, no pets, no smoking, Schufa clean, all that. Every single viewing had 40+ people, and landlords kept asking for proof of income from the last three months like we were applying for a loan. We finally landed a place in Moabit through a connection at work, and even then the landlord wanted a "provision" of two cold rents on the side, no receipt. We paid it because we were exhausted. That was 2021, and our 1.5 room is still 750 cold, which feels like a steal compared to what friends are paying in Friedrichshain. The whole thing is rotten, from the brokers to the so-called modernizations.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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