{
  "id": 17740115,
  "title": "Housing: Left Party: More than 11,000 tenants alerted authorities via app",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/wohnen-linke-mehr-als-11-000-mieter-alarmierten-uber-app-die-amter",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-02T03:30:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wohnen-linke-mehr-als-11000-mieter-alarmierten-ueber-app-die-aemter/100266502.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}