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In the countries with decent protection from tenants there is a significant level of housing stability which is a desirable benefit. The flip side is that you end up with a relatively small group of mega money landlords who own most of the country's property.
In Switzerland, the rental market is mostly controlled by old money. These are generally families who have enormous property portfolios built up over generations and no pressure to raise rents as being a landlord is by and large seen as a safe but slow earner. In other words, you don't have accidental landlords with huge mortgages with pressure to raise rents to pay those off.
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Berlin has a system with long tenacy but very high tenant protection.
And a massive housing shortage because it doesn't make commercial sense for anyone to build new residential properties.
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Why do we need to OWN housing anyway?
Berlin has a system with long tenacy but very high tenant protection.
Here there is low tenant protection, low protecting against price hikes, low interference of the government on poor housing, very few social housing groups/companies that are non-profit that do housing (Northern Ireland still has a few, you won't get luxury housing but it is usually quite adequate, such groups are common in The Netherlands) so we all get pushed towards owning a house, which we then can't afford.
Not ideal :)