Gutach Tung against expropriation : the Senate responded with tit-for-tat

Shortly after the presentation of the opinion of constitutional lawyer Helge Sodan the Senate presented to the administration for urban development and Housing and a further three opinions of the lawyers Reiner Geulen, Jörg Beckmann took, and a Professor of law Volkert Vorwerk Online. "The question of legal new territory". It is affirmed, in part, the possibility of the use of article 15 of the basic law. To read is, for example, that "so far, all by the legislator implemented the legal instruments are not suitable, the increase in Rents and the displacement of tenants in low-and middle-income derived from the ancestral to finish a living room or counter effectively".

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request for a referendum in Berlin on expropriation of real estate corporations, according to the report, it is legally possible

in Principle, the country could pass a law (legislative competence): in any case, constitutional lawyers, Vorwerk does not recognize that because of the "current Federal legislation," the Land of Berlin, it would be detained, "again, by law, housing companies". Nor are such concerns, from the Constitution of the state of Berlin would result.