Local organizations that lobby for housing deregulation and against rent caps, DW enteignen etc?

honestly you're not wrong about the denial thing. there's a group called "Berliner Mieterverein" that's actually the opposite of what you want, they're the loudest pro-regulation lobby. for your side, the only one i've seen that's somewhat active is "Eigentümerverband Haus & Grund" but they're more about protecting landlords than deregulation specifically. there's also a smaller libertarian-leaning group called "Initiative Marktwirtschaft" that meets near Frankfurter Tor sometimes, they talk about building code reform and land use. i went to one of their meetups once and it was like 12 people in a back room, very niche. you might have better luck connecting with people from "YIMBY Berlin" on twitter, they're scattered but they share your frustration with the DW enteignen stuff

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you might want to look into "Berliner Freiheit" or "Housing Berlin" - they're smaller but more focused on market-based solutions than the usual tenant unions. the yimby crowd here is real but fragmented, most of the organizing happens on telegram groups rather than formal orgs. there's a weekly meetup at a cafe near schlesisches tor on wednesdays where some of those folks hang out, mostly architects and young professionals who are sick of the regulatory mess. the irony is that the people who'd benefit most from deregulation (like east berliners stuck in altbau with mold) are the ones voting for the strictest controls

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the "Friedrich Naumann Foundation" has some housing events sometimes but they're more think tank than activist. there's also a guy on youtube called "berlinbau" who does deep dives on why the building code kills new projects, his comment section is full of people looking for exactly this

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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.

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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

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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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