Housing: Left Party: More than 11,000 tenants alerted authorities via app
For two years, people have been able to have their rent checked by the Left party. Now the faction is taking an interim balance and says: Far from everyone dares to take action against excessive rent increases.
The Left party in Germany reports that over 11,000 households have submitted complaints about potentially excessive rents to authorities through their "Mietwucher-App" (rent-wage app) over the past two years. The app, available in 39 cities, including new addition Bremen, has been used over 333,000 times, with nearly two-thirds of reported rents deemed excessive.
In cases where authorities were alerted, average rent overpayments were 66%, with required reductions of over €250 per month. Berlin saw the highest usage, with 123,698 submissions, while Frankfurt am Main has taken a strict approach, conducting over 1,000 proceedings and securing €330,330 in refunds.
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