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Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:

Einbauschrank posted:

Wohnbaugenossenschaften are a very liberal concept
lol

amazing how the current thread righty is getting triggered into vomiting word soup

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pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Einbauschrank posted:

Grenfell Tower fits your description best and that was sozialer Wohnungsbau administered by your communal friendly gemeinnützige GmbH.

Certainly the problem of Grenfell tower was that it didn't have Asbestos?

But yeah, the housing thing is a pretty complicated problem, and anyone who just says "nationalise!" or "deregulate!" is being too simplistic. Places with nationalised housing weren't exactly known for assigning nice flats to all comers quickly, and reducing renter protections will lead to even more slumlordism. Not letting houses be an attractive investment / speculation object seems like a good idea though.

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo

Einbauschrank posted:

Grenfell Tower fits your description best and that was sozialer Wohnungsbau administered by your communal friendly gemeinnützige GmbH. Gentrifizierte Vonovia wohnungs are nowadays quiet well kept (in contrast to the Annington era), that's how they justify raising the rent and check the boxes for "gehobene Ausstattung". But both cases don't further your argument, so try posting what you mean instead of beating around the bush.

Immobiliengesellschaften provide benefits to the mieter because not only do they offer well kept flats (s.a.), they are also able to cope with all the administrative and capital requirements that the Gesetzgeber have imposed on the "deregulated" Wohnungsmarkt. There's a reason the Kleinvermieter are selling their property to those Gesellschaften: Being a small time landlord isn't worth the trouble. So everybody who speaks of marktversagen in this overregulated environment deserves a hearty "LOL" to his face. And that's without touching the subject of the Immobilienmarkt being collateral damage of the ECB's decade long struggle to save the Euro from the PIIGS' deficit spending. Also, there's a reason it's not the Kommunen but the Gesellschaften which buy Wohnungseinheiten. In a nutshell, the big Gesellschaften are enablers for something the state has made unattractive for the Mittelstand to provide.

The öffentliche Hand could theoretically do all this for all the tenants in a city. Except they can't, because they lack the know-how, the money and the incentive to do it well and at a reasonable price.They can do it badly, e.g. GDR. Or they could do it for some but not for others and increase administrative overkeep with monstrosities like the Fehlbelegungsabgabe (also e.g. the GDR, people married and enlisted into the NVA to get into a Plattenbau instead of having to live in some bomb crater from WW2).


I'm pretty sure the rising housing prices in the Netherlands might be explained by it being one of the most densely populated countries on earth and 90+% of their population living in big cities. Boden ist nicht vermehrbar, even Marxists agree on that one. And even establishing a workers' paradise with unicorns farting rainbows won't change that fact. The usual housing insurance covers your house burning down but not the land disappearing under its foundations, that's why 300k is enough to cover something that sells for 1000k. Of course, you can aushebel the pricing mechanism, but it won't change the underlying fact that land is a precious commodity in the Netherlands - and in big cities. It doesn't help that tall buildings are forbidden e.g. in Munich. The fact that money is invested into modernizing rather than Neubauten (in Germany) is also an indicator that land is one of the bottlenecks. And this partly an artificial problem of the Kommunen who don't ausweis Baufläche or some stupid bougie Green NIMBY poo poo like Tempelhof going on.

Wohnungsgenossenschaften don't build Wohnungen, and they need capital to build (and maintain) them. Lots of them got pampered after the Wende, so it's still tax payer money subsidizing a few lucky ones at the expense of everybody else - that's real solidarity, Reg!

Wohnbaugenossenschaften are a very liberal concept, but they still need capital provided by the Genossen to build those houses. And here's the secret: This mean capitalist system allows you and everybody else to form or join a Genossenschaft and you don't need Kevin Kühnert to do it or to expropriate somebody else.

But one thing will not change even under Full Socialism Now Only Without Schießbefehl: If there's a hard limit of 200.000 people fitting into the Prenzlauer Berg area but 2 million people who would like to live there, 1,8 million people will feel shafted by the system.

lol imagine being this slow in the head

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo

pidan posted:

Certainly the problem of Grenfell tower was that it didn't have Asbestos?

But yeah, the housing thing is a pretty complicated problem, and anyone who just says "nationalise!" or "deregulate!" is being too simplistic. Places with nationalised housing weren't exactly known for assigning nice flats to all comers quickly, and reducing renter protections will lead to even more slumlordism. Not letting houses be an attractive investment / speculation object seems like a good idea though.

"Housing is a pretty complicated problem", I say as I fill literally every piece of ground that is developed with luxury apartments instead of (state owned) affordable housing which is actually needed.

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
So bummed that the state simply cannot have know-how about things. It is impossible. Real sad that you are not allowed no work for the state if you have any know-how whatsoever. This is why we need the Free Market, which time and again has proven to have know-how on every subject, and always has the best for the people at heart.

Wengy
Feb 6, 2008

Lord Stimperor posted:

Basic human necessities - food, shelter, medicine - should never be an investment vehicle. Invest in the companies that maintain these things, okay, but never the underlying asset itself.

I've spend the last decade in the Netherlands. The housing market here has been very liberal for centuries. The expectation that houses rise in value is built-in into the economy. As a result, housing prices rice dramatically, and so do rent, and so inversely purchasing power for everyone not on the housing ladder decreases. . Waiting lists for rent-controlled homes can easily exceed an entire decade in the more densely populated towns (i.e. everywhere). Parents sign up their children while they're still figuring out the alphabet. Last year, people paid, on average, IIRC 10% above asking price for a house on the market. And the houses are just one step above the English cardboard boxes. Insulation? Yeah here have some asbestos. Thick, sound-deafening walls? Here are some ear buds. Space? Why, a family of five easily fits into a two bedroom apartment. These aren't even homes built to custom specs by architects, it's one neighbourhood after another of identical, lovely cookie cutter homes.

It's certainly not the loving labour that went into the houses that explains these sky high prices, it's investment and nothing else. In the popular cities, nicer homes sell for close to a million. The insurance on them is only worth 300k. Why? Because that's the cost to rebuilt them, including improved modern materials. All the rest is just people selling each other houses at ever increasing prices. It's so dumb.

And for what? There's not a single benefit to this for the citizens. You're paying yourself stupid on a dumb excessive mortgage. If you sell the home, you have to pay or rent for ridiculous sums again. You've gained absolutely nothing, but the banks, and realtors, and notaries, and the tax collector all thank you for your cooperation. I guess you might get something back if your pension fund invests into real estate. But otherwise, what would be the harm in having a home cost a realistic price?


This poo poo can absolutely not happen in Germany. It would gently caress over an uncountable number of people. If there is any way at all, fight tooth and nail for every Genossenschaft, social privilege and what not that shields renters and keeps the housing market unattractive for systematic investment.

Welcome to Switzerland, where the working population is zwangsversichert in a kapitalgedeckte Rentenversicherung, leading to immense sums that have to be invested somehow... Into Betongold, since that’s the only thing left that yields something resembling a Rendite. So the average Swiss person pays a chunk of their salary into the Rentenversicherung every month and then shells out another third of their Nettolohn for rent which basically lines the pocket of their Rentenversicherung as well. I guess at least it’s not going to Chinese investment funds or anything like that, but I don’t think this particular way of doing things is very effective.

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
Why would you have any incentive to do anything right if not for the guiding light of Capitalism and the Free Market?

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


I mean, you have only to look at Vienna if you want evidence of the öffentliche Hand being able to avoid the worst excesses of Mietexplosionen at least somewhat by a combination of pumping lots of money into it (600 million per year iirc) and, man glaubt es kaum, a bit of foresight and just a dash of Prinzipientreue. That's not to say that the housing situation on Vienna is perfect or that the SPÖ isn't a Sauhaufen vor dem Herrn, but at least on this particular question they did a lot of good work and continue to do so imo.

That means im Detail:
- building lots of Gemeindebauten all over the cityand not loving selling them
- add a ton of öffentlich geförderte Wohnungen to the mix and suddenly you have a whopping 62% of the city having to pay less rent thanks to the state
- destigmatise living im Gemeindebau by keeping the maximum income still eligible for a Gemeindewohnung relatively high (right now it's something like 45.000€/year I think) and not have renters move out even if their income grows beyond that. This also keeps the soziale Durchmischung - in some Gemeindebauten you have Nationalratsabgeordnete and Theaterintendanten living next door to Putzfrauen and Paketboten

And wouldn't you know it, those policies also keep the rent low in those houses and flats that are 100% privately owned! I couldnt quickly find more current numbers, but in 2017 the average netto rent per sqm was at 9,60€ in Vienna compared to ~13€ in Prague or Rome and 26€ in London or Paris! To be sure, the situation in Vienna is a result of more than a century of careful social democrat housing policy and not easily replizierbar, but as long as you are prepared to follow through with it, to invest a *lot* of money and to have a situation where only a small minority of Wohnungen are owned instead of rented it's still a good ideal to aspire to I think.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Einbauschrank posted:

But one thing will not change even under Full Socialism Now Only Without Schießbefehl: If there's a hard limit of 200.000 people fitting into the Prenzlauer Berg area but 2 million people who would like to live there, 1,8 million people will feel shafted by the system.
And yet, if the 200k and the 1.8m both have a representative distribution of rich and poor instead of being 200k rich and 1.8m poors that would be a form of social progress.

Zwille
Aug 18, 2006

* For the Ghost Who Walks Funny
Love how the thread title stays current.

Chilies: left them outside at 1 degrees C a night back and I guess they all died. Took them back in but I’m not holding my breath, leaves look weak af. Got like 5 late bloomers still on a windowsill which are my only hope now. Hope one of the Sichuan ones make it!

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:



Zwille posted:

Love how the thread title stays current.

Chilies: left them outside at 1 degrees C a night back and I guess they all died. Took them back in but I’m not holding my breath, leaves look weak af. Got like 5 late bloomers still on a windowsill which are my only hope now. Hope one of the Sichuan ones make it!

Probably not too late to order plants from ChiliFood or whatever that website is called! The three I got from there are starting to grow like crazy and I really need to Umtopf them into their final homes.

And I have to order some Tomatenerde from an online shop or something since my local garden center doesn't carry any for some weird reason.

Zwille
Aug 18, 2006

* For the Ghost Who Walks Funny
Yeah that’d feel like cheating but hey I tried. I’m gonna look into it if they all die.

I got a weird mix of Pflanzerde, Gartenerde and Tomatenerde going now, I don’t even remember anymore. All bio though. Bought two tomatoes for 79ct each and put them in big Kübel and guess they died too.

Would it be a good idea to give everyone a good helping of Tomatendünger though? 🤔

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spahn-masern-101.html

quote:

Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn will verpflichtende Masern-Impfungen für Kita- und Schulkinder durchsetzen und dafür Geldstrafen von bis zu 2500 Euro und einen Ausschluss vom Kita-Besuch androhen.

Mal gespannt ob das nur wieder heisse Luft ist. Auch: Genial dass die angedachte Geldstrafe ein erhobener Zeigefinger für Reiche, und utopisch für Hartz4ler ist. Prozentrechnung ist wohl hart.

Perestroika
Apr 8, 2010

Mithaldu posted:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spahn-masern-101.html


Mal gespannt ob das nur wieder heisse Luft ist. Auch: Genial dass die angedachte Geldstrafe ein erhobener Zeigefinger für Reiche, und utopisch für Hartz4ler ist. Prozentrechnung ist wohl hart.

Yeah, don't we have the concept of Tagessätze specifically to avoid this issue? Or are those only applicable in a particular context somehow?

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Das soll wahrscheinlich Geldbuße und nicht Geldstrafe heißen. Bei Bußgeldern gibt es statt Tagessätzen diese expliziten Obergrenzen.

pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Mithaldu posted:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spahn-masern-101.html


Mal gespannt ob das nur wieder heisse Luft ist. Auch: Genial dass die angedachte Geldstrafe ein erhobener Zeigefinger für Reiche, und utopisch für Hartz4ler ist. Prozentrechnung ist wohl hart.

There's a famous case where a daycare in the US started imposing a fine for picking your kid up later than allowed. The effect was that more people started picking their child up late. Because in their mind, the fine was the cost of late pick-up, and the rule changed from "don't do this" to "do this if you want and can pay for it".
I guess this vax fine might have a similar effect, where people who might have felt a bit guilty about not vaccinating will now see the fine as having paid their due.
On the other hand, it will probably motivate all those people who just don't vaccinate because they're busy or forgetful.

What I would do is just line up the kids and vaxx them in schools, as was done to my generation, though I think my mom gave me a Wisch that exempted me, or maybe I just forgot to bring my vaxx book and we never wrote it down :shrug:. (Ich hab mich später selber noch mal impfen lassen, sicher ist sicher).

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp
Hosting those vaccination events in schools always struck me as very helpful, and I remember being kinda shocked when I found out that it wasn't actually mandatory. As a youngin I could have sworn it was, and I saw nothing wrong with that. I still don't, and I hope that becomes the case, personally. Nobody should permit any loving around when serious health issues are the consequence.

goethe42
Jun 5, 2004

Ich sei, gewaehrt mir die Bitte, in eurem Bunde der Dritte!
The 2500 Euro don't pay for the entry to a Kita though, the child still wouldn't be allowed to attend, which is the difference to the late-comer fee example.
I wanted to write that 2500 Euros are a "erhobener Zeigefinger" for only a small minority of families, but then I looked up the median household income for couples with children (around 4700/month btw.) and now I agree, it should be tied to the income, but starting at 2500 instead of that being the maximum. Not innoculating your children and endangering those that can't be inoculated has got to hurt. I'm usually not a law and order type, but I have seen what the measles did to a childhood friends brain and seriously, gently caress everyone who enables that.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Und natürlich tauchen von der SPD und den Grünen wieder Bedenkenträger auf, die zwar betonen, dass Impfen und gut und richtig sei, aber man ja niemanden dazu zwingen könne. :allears:

(Man merkt, dass Impf"kritik" und "Alternativmedizin" Geisteskrankheiten der Mittelschicht sind, wenn selbst die ansonsten rückwärtsgewandte CDU sich nicht gegen das Impfen richtet.)

pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Randler posted:

Und natürlich tauchen von der SPD und den Grünen wieder Bedenkenträger auf, die zwar betonen, dass Impfen und gut und richtig sei, aber man ja niemanden dazu zwingen könne. :allears:

(Man merkt, dass Impf"kritik" und "Alternativmedizin" Geisteskrankheiten der Mittelschicht sind, wenn selbst die ansonsten rückwärtsgewandte CDU sich nicht gegen das Impfen richtet.)

Soweit ich weiß neigen die Anhänger von Rudolf Steiner zur "Impfkritik", also werden die Grünen sich nie 100% für das Impfen aussprechen.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Einbauschrank posted:

Grenfell Tower fits your description best and that was sozialer Wohnungsbau administered by your communal friendly gemeinnützige GmbH. Gentrifizierte Vonovia wohnungs are nowadays quiet well kept (in contrast to the Annington era), that's how they justify raising the rent and check the boxes for "gehobene Ausstattung". But both cases don't further your argument, so try posting what you mean instead of beating around the bush.

Immobiliengesellschaften provide benefits to the mieter because not only do they offer well kept flats (s.a.), they are also able to cope with all the administrative and capital requirements that the Gesetzgeber have imposed on the "deregulated" Wohnungsmarkt. There's a reason the Kleinvermieter are selling their property to those Gesellschaften: Being a small time landlord isn't worth the trouble. So everybody who speaks of marktversagen in this overregulated environment deserves a hearty "LOL" to his face. And that's without touching the subject of the Immobilienmarkt being collateral damage of the ECB's decade long struggle to save the Euro from the PIIGS' deficit spending. Also, there's a reason it's not the Kommunen but the Gesellschaften which buy Wohnungseinheiten. In a nutshell, the big Gesellschaften are enablers for something the state has made unattractive for the Mittelstand to provide.

The öffentliche Hand could theoretically do all this for all the tenants in a city. Except they can't, because they lack the know-how, the money and the incentive to do it well and at a reasonable price.They can do it badly, e.g. GDR. Or they could do it for some but not for others and increase administrative overkeep with monstrosities like the Fehlbelegungsabgabe (also e.g. the GDR, people married and enlisted into the NVA to get into a Plattenbau instead of having to live in some bomb crater from WW2).

- Every single things that went wrong with Grenfell Tower you will find on the private market a thousand times worse and more frequent. I'm not sure what point you are making here?

- Also, Vonovia? The company that is involved in a new scandal every other week for implementing ultra-shady Abzock- and Ausbeutertaktiken and probably has the worst Kundenzufrieden of anything ever? Why would you chose them for your example? :cripes:

- The öffentliche Hand build millions of apartments. I'm sure it can manage another couple hundred thousand more.

- Also, your DDR boogeyman scare rhetoric is not gonna land outside the FAZ echo chamber and I'm not sure why you bring it up again and again here. I grew up in a nice cheap WBG flat& lived in a fantastic Genossenschaftswohnung for a while. I don't give a poo poo about Honecker.

quote:

It doesn't help that tall buildings are forbidden e.g. in Munich. The fact that money is invested into modernizing rather than Neubauten (in Germany) is also an indicator that land is one of the bottlenecks. And this partly an artificial problem of the Kommunen who don't ausweis Baufläche or some stupid bougie Green NIMBY poo poo like Tempelhof going on.

This is the only thing I can agree with you on. A huge part of the housing crisis is caused by lovely city NIMBY behavior and the complete Unwille by the cities to do anything serious about the problem. London has 8 mio residents, Munich has only 1.5 mio. There is absolutely no reason why the city couldn't grow beyond its current size through Nachverdichtung and spread. But that would need huge public transport expansions, städtischer Wohnungsbau and to stand up to NIMBYs and none of that is ever gonna happen under the current mindset of "Weiter so! Final salvation is just another Grundsteuerform around the corner!"

Mano
Jul 11, 2012

Zwille posted:

Chilies: left them outside at 1 degrees C a night back and I guess they all died. Took them back in but I’m not holding my breath, leaves look weak af. Got like 5 late bloomers still on a windowsill which are my only hope now. Hope one of the Sichuan ones make it!

Luckily I took in mine so they’re not dead (except for those dying to whatever else). Some of the Feuerküsschen now also have blooms, yay! They just don’t get bestäubt cause the weather is still poo poo for the next few days. I probably need to use some Wattestäbchen soon.

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Randler posted:

Und natürlich tauchen von der SPD und den Grünen wieder Bedenkenträger auf, die zwar betonen, dass Impfen und gut und richtig sei, aber man ja niemanden dazu zwingen könne. :allears:

(Man merkt, dass Impf"kritik" und "Alternativmedizin" Geisteskrankheiten der Mittelschicht sind, wenn selbst die ansonsten rückwärtsgewandte CDU sich nicht gegen das Impfen richtet.)

I started to do a thing once where I tried to correlate measles outbreaks with Grüne votes, on the Wahlbezirk level, but IIRC the disease stats weren't fine-grained enough for that and also I'm insanely loving lazy. But :hmmyes: all around

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Smirr posted:

I started to do a thing once where I tried to correlate measles outbreaks with Grüne votes, on the Wahlbezirk level, but IIRC the disease stats weren't fine-grained enough for that and also I'm insanely loving lazy. But :hmmyes: all around

Ich wähle die Grünen und spreche mich 125% für das Impfen aus, also hätte deine Korrellation wahrscheinlich eh nicht funktioniert.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Libluini posted:

Ich wähle die Grünen und spreche mich 125% für das Impfen aus, also hätte deine Korrellation wahrscheinlich eh nicht funktioniert.

Das Problem der Grünen ist, dass sie nicht nur halbwegs vernünftiges Gedankengut fördern, sondern neben süddeutschen Spiessbürgern auch aus der Anstalt ausgebrochene Irre ganz ok finden, so lange die sich grün anstreichen lassen.

Zwille
Aug 18, 2006

* For the Ghost Who Walks Funny

Mano posted:

Luckily I took in mine so they’re not dead (except for those dying to whatever else). Some of the Feuerküsschen now also have blooms, yay! They just don’t get bestäubt cause the weather is still poo poo for the next few days. I probably need to use some Wattestäbchen soon.

I got pics of one of the ones I gave away and it's growing like crazy! Dude claims he didn't do anything except put it on the windowsill, so my bet is that outside was too cold all along because mine have barely grown since then (and then apparently went full belly up). :saddowns:

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Libluini posted:

Ich wähle die Grünen und spreche mich 125% für das Impfen aus, also hätte deine Korrellation wahrscheinlich eh nicht funktioniert.

I try to be positive, but honestly this is one of the most baffling posts I've ever read in this thread. I didn't say that I assume that all Grüne voters are anti-vaxxers (which would in fact be falsified by your existence). I said that I assume that Grüne voters have a relatively high proportion of anti-vaxxers (which your existence has very little bearing on).

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

suck my woke dick posted:

Das Problem der Grünen ist, dass sie nicht nur halbwegs vernünftiges Gedankengut fördern, sondern neben süddeutschen Spiessbürgern auch aus der Anstalt ausgebrochene Irre ganz ok finden, so lange die sich grün anstreichen lassen.

Na ja, wenn meine Partei so viele Antis hat wie Smirr denkt, wird die nächste Seuche nur noch mich übrig lassen. Ich werde dann ein paar Änderungen vornehmen. :smugbird:



Smirr posted:

I try to be positive, but honestly this is one of the most baffling posts I've ever read in this thread.

Ironically, that was my reaction to your post. Your assumption sounded so dumb I could only react with a lame joke post

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

once the bourgeoisie has killed itself with polio and keuchhusten, the lumpenproletariat will finally rule the earth. Jusr as the great Marx envisioned

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

Opferwurst posted:

Jusr as the great Marx envisioned

IIRC Marx view on the Lumpenproletariat was actually closer to SPD Münte's view on those without Lohnarbeit.

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Libluini posted:

Ironically, that was my reaction to your post. Your assumption sounded so dumb I could only react with a lame joke post

The thing that got me started on that theory is that people tend to assume that anti-vaccination beliefs tend to be held by parents of, say, Chantals or Mohammeds, while I assume that it's probably far more widespread among parents of whatever your first name is. There's just no way that actual poor people go "hm, I will pass on this vaccination for my child even though it's essentially free" to an extent that it causes measles outbreaks, while there is a very real chance that people who have opinions on Elektrosmog will do just that. I don't know, this seems like common sense to me

Mano
Jul 11, 2012

Zwille posted:

I got pics of one of the ones I gave away and it's growing like crazy! Dude claims he didn't do anything except put it on the windowsill, so my bet is that outside was too cold all along because mine have barely grown since then (and then apparently went full belly up). :saddowns:

Since most are from climates with temperatures above 20, 25 C, keeping them out in the night is still a bit off around here I think.
Although it might be an idea to get some variants from colder climates, like Hungarian or so which should be better with lower temps?

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


I think the best dataset on where people vaccinate their children the most/least you can get for Germany would be http://www.vacmap.de/ (for measles and the Rota virus, on a Landkreis/Berliner Bezirk basis). I didn't look too closely into it but it doesn't seem like there is any obvious correlation between Greens voting share and vaccination rate. Otoh a quick googling led to this article on measles patients in Berlin and this one for Bavaria which both seem to indicate that there might be at least the possibility of a correlation. It's hard to say either way, though - this sociologist says that the main factor in whether you're sceptical towards vaccines seems to be young age and having a child, neither of which are a predominantly Green feature, whereas this statistical analysis sees a correlation between rising income and lower vaccination rates (albeit a very weak one, to be fair).

Einbauschrank
Nov 5, 2009

Opferwurst posted:

- Every single things that went wrong with Grenfell Tower you will find on the private market a thousand times worse and more frequent. I'm not sure what point you are making here?

- Also, Vonovia? The company that is involved in a new scandal every other week for implementing ultra-shady Abzock- and Ausbeutertaktiken and probably has the worst Kundenzufrieden of anything ever? Why would you chose them for your example? :cripes:

- The öffentliche Hand build millions of apartments. I'm sure it can manage another couple hundred thousand more.

- Also, your DDR boogeyman scare rhetoric is not gonna land outside the FAZ echo chamber and I'm not sure why you bring it up again and again here. I grew up in a nice cheap WBG flat& lived in a fantastic Genossenschaftswohnung for a while. I don't give a poo poo about Honecker.


- My point was: Write in clear prose instead of constructing convoluted strawmen. The best known incident with aluminum-sheets happened to be Grenfell, it's like the Chernobyl of recent (Western European) housing incidents. And these sheets were built in to satisfy some Wärmedämmungsvorschriften. So I hope you see a pattern here. I don't have statistics handy when it comes to whether Sozialwohnungen in öffentlicher Hand are burning down more or less often than Wohnungen on the freier Markt, especially those that were recently aufgewertet to raise the rent, but I also guess that's not really central to our discussion. It simply seemed like a very bad example in a very muddy sentence. But I am genuinely grateful for you clearing it up.

- Vonovia is actually a good example of how hosed up the red tape is. An older couple used to own a house which I helped them administer as their health was failing. They finally sold it (I even think to Terra Firma) because the fuckery was too much for them. It was one of those old low rent houses. So you had to invest lot of time for very little return on investment. They didn't try to shaft their tenants, they simply weren't professional accountants and neither was I. After selling the house they watch their investments rise and don't have people calling them on Sundays because their sink is dripping.

Vonovia can get away with shady poo poo, because the corporation has adapted to withstand the red tape that is driving Kleinvermieter away. Some tenant raising a muck? It's some clerk's problem from 9-5, but not 24/7/365. Also, for the anecdotal record: I am a tenant of Vonovia, I have received a very structured Nebenkostenabrechnung which I have used for the Absetzung of Handwerksleistungen and a usually pretty quick service for little stuff like mold in the corner of the bath etc. I am not sure if Vonovia has a worse track record than others, they happen to have 400k appartments and I have experienced how much trouble one house can cause.

- I am not against WBGs, on the contrary, they are a perfectly liberal solution and I am also a big fan of Bausparen etc.. I'm simply pointing out that they don't magically solve most problems associated with the housing market and they still need money to build *new* appartments. I was also wrong, because I implicitly thought that there's the a difference between Wohnbau- and Wohnungsgenossenschaft, as in the former builds new appartments, the latter only rents them out. But the question still stand: How does a non-profit org raise money for *new* appartments.

The Baugewerbe is running so hot it's good it isn't covered in aluminum sheets. They are building around 300k appartments a year (mostly for the private sector) and about 80k Sozialwohnungen (or mietpreisgebundene Wohnungen or whatever) would be needed yearly. That's a sizeable chunk that would be quite expensive, even more so at the moment. Wohnungsbau has been a big issue since the end of WW2 and I think you are underestimating the effort that has been put into it and that continues going into it. In the early 2000s, before Schröder, we had a declining population, no big migration pull and - due to the stagnating economy - a much slower Binnenwanderung into the Städte. Lot's of appartments were emptying, which is why Dresden didn't have a problem selling its appartments. We now have to catch up with this relatively recent development. Add to that, since 2006 the states are responsible for organizing the Wohnungsbaupolitik. So far, they have cashed in the money from Berlin but not spent it on Wohnungen, because it isn't zweckgebunden. Seems like Politikversagen to me.

- The GDR isn't a bogeyman. It's the most recent example in German history of a non free-market wohnungsmarkt.I would have agreed on the bogeyman accusation if I had painted some bleak picture of all WBGs being run down hell holes like they can be seen in socialist states. But I was pointing out the allocation problem. So you had a nice, cheap WBG appartment. Good for you, but why do you deserve it more than the other 85% (to use Berlin numbers)? This is where the GDR example comes in. You either have some gamey Punktesystem (that's why people were entering a sham marriage or enlisting in the NVA) or a long Wartezeit or cronyism or dumb luck.

System Metternich posted:

I mean, you have only to look at Vienna if you want evidence of the öffentliche Hand being able to avoid the worst excesses of Mietexplosionen at least somewhat by a combination of pumping lots of money into it (600 million per year iirc) and, man glaubt es kaum, a bit of foresight and just a dash of Prinzipientreue. [...]To be sure, the situation in Vienna is a result of more than a century of careful social democrat housing policy and not easily replizierbar, but as long as you are prepared to follow through with it, to invest a *lot* of money and to have a situation where only a small minority of Wohnungen are owned instead of rented it's still a good ideal to aspire to I think.

Vienna is often cited and I think in the long run this is the direction big cities in Germany will likely be heading. But I don't think that Karl Lueger, the father of the Vienna housing policy, was member of the SPÖ or any ither social democratic party.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Einbauschrank posted:

- My point was: Write in clear prose instead of constructing convoluted strawmen. The best known incident with aluminum-sheets happened to be Grenfell, it's like the Chernobyl of recent (Western European) housing incidents. And these sheets were built in to satisfy some Wärmedämmungsvorschriften. So I hope you see a pattern here. I don't have statistics handy when it comes to whether Sozialwohnungen in öffentlicher Hand are burning down more or less often than Wohnungen on the freier Markt, especially those that were recently aufgewertet to raise the rent, but I also guess that's not really central to our discussion. It simply seemed like a very bad example in a very muddy sentence. But I am genuinely grateful for you clearing it up.
* There were alternative more fire resistant types of aluminium cladding available for minimal extra investment (and by minimal I mean below €10k extra cost for the whole building)
* Was cladding actually installed for Wärmedämmungsvorschriften reasons, because earlier reports suggested that cladding was only added in after rich neighbours pushed for it so the poor would be less of an eyesore

quote:

- The GDR isn't a bogeyman. It's the most recent example in German history of a non free-market wohnungsmarkt.I would have agreed on the bogeyman accusation if I had painted some bleak picture of all WBGs being run down hell holes like they can be seen in socialist states. But I was pointing out the allocation problem. So you had a nice, cheap WBG appartment. Good for you, but why do you deserve it more than the other 85% (to use Berlin numbers)? This is where the GDR example comes in. You either have some gamey Punktesystem (that's why people were entering a sham marriage or enlisting in the NVA) or a long Wartezeit or cronyism or dumb luck.
In that case dumb luck is the least bad option, hth.

quote:

Vienna is often cited and I think in the long run this is the direction big cities in Germany will likely be heading. But I don't think that Karl Lueger, the father of the Vienna housing policy, was member of the SPÖ or any ither social democratic party.
Sozialwohnungsbau: nothing leftist to see here, move along.

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Einbauschrank posted:


Vienna is often cited and I think in the long run this is the direction big cities in Germany will likely be heading. But I don't think that Karl Lueger, the father of the Vienna housing policy, was member of the SPÖ or any ither social democratic party.

That might be the worst example of goal post moving I've ever seen.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


Einbauschrank posted:

Vienna is often cited and I think in the long run this is the direction big cities in Germany will likely be heading. But I don't think that Karl Lueger, the father of the Vienna housing policy, was member of the SPÖ or any ither social democratic party.

Where did you get this from, the ÖVP homepage? :psyduck: While Lueger was an active proponent of Christian socialism (and also a fanatical antisemite, though that's neither here nor there in this case) and did follow up on his ambitious social welfare policies, re: Wohnungsnot all he did was to create a central register for free apartments so that apartment-hunting would go easier. Literally every single Gemeindebau was built after WW1 and virtually all of them by the SPÖ!*


* there is a tiny handful of Gemeindebauten constructed between 1934 and 1945, when the SPÖ had to go underground, but they represent only a minuscule percentage of total Baumasse and the Bautätigkeit during those years is vanishingly small vs the SPÖ years before or after

Einbauschrank
Nov 5, 2009

System Metternich posted:

Where did you get this from, the ÖVP homepage? :psyduck: While Lueger was an active proponent of Christian socialism (and also a fanatical antisemite, though that's neither here nor there in this case) and did follow up on his ambitious social welfare policies, re: Wohnungsnot all he did was to create a central register for free apartments so that apartment-hunting would go easier. Literally every single Gemeindebau was built after WW1 and virtually all of them by the SPÖ!*


I was under the impression he was the one to kickstart the Sozialprogramme which were continued and expanded im Roten Wien.

E.g. here
https://radikale-linke.at/de/2016/12/02/achtung-deutschnationale-und-antisemitische-kontinuitaten-2/

But I don’t want to derail this. I agree (apparently that’s goal post shifting) that the Vienna housing policy might become an example for Germany which historically lacked a strong centre and therefore didn’t experience many of the metropolitan woes of other cities.

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

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Can we maybe just ignore Einbauschrank and let him move back to the FAZ forums? It's not even fun reading his worn out dumb arguments.

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Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Einbauschrank posted:


But I don't want to derail this. I agree (apparently that's goal post shifting) that the Vienna housing policy might become an example for Germany which historically lacked a strong centre and therefore didn't experience many of the metropolitan woes of other cities.


I don't know if you're really this dumb, but the goal post shifting was the last sentence. The one where you pretended that the discussion was about the party affiliation of Karl Lueger.

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