Starting on 1 July....in Germany....a list will go out each month to individual renters, and individual landlords (random situation), and the person getting it....is 'forced' to provide their rental situation.
Refusing? Up to 5,000 Euro in a fine.
Odds of this creating a massive wave of frustration?
Lets say that you own a building with 10 apartments, and you rent them out....but over the past twenty years....you renovated a couple of them (new bathrooms), and for those folks....you pushed the rent up 60 Euro more each month.
On paper....some are paying 700 Euro, and some are paying 760 Euro. A gov't guy getting this data might go and make a case out of perceived unfairness...wasting three hours of your time, and involving some lawyer.
Why this necessity of data? Well....lets just be honest....people are putting an enormous amount of pressure on city, state and federal folks to act....but they really don't know what the average guy, or the average neighborhood is running.
The odds of 10-million bits of information just not telling the story? Oh, I'd bet on that.
Maybe if you lived in a smaller town of 12,000....you could assemble a good story and detail how much a 20-year old apartment really costs.
The odds that people will make up fake numbers? That's possible as well.
I'm pretty sure that some folks who live under bridges will get this notice and just have a laugh over how they tell their story.
As for resolving things? I think it'll just make it more confusing.
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