{"id":33496,"date":"2020-02-03T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=33496"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:32:52","slug":"berlin-freezes-rents-for-5-years-in-a-bid-to-slow-gentrification-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/03\/berlin-freezes-rents-for-5-years-in-a-bid-to-slow-gentrification-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Freezes Rents for 5 Years in a Bid to Slow Gentrification &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/31\/world\/europe\/berlin-gentrification-rent.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=fb-nytimes&amp;fbclid=IwAR0qgMjesjFjQ8DJYPDkDalVJ6vNbEOY3u4K6iIEQ5Z1g-truNKioKPSiyU\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/merlin_165373296_78e5615f-a8b1-433f-8b66-4931314c27e4-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>BERLIN \u2014 Rental prices on more than 1.5 million Berlin apartments will be frozen or lowered for five years as a result of new legislation aimed at halting a recent spike in rents that is driving out older and lower-income residents. <!--more-->The measure, which lawmakers approved on Thursday and which is to take effect next month, is an attempt by Berlin\u2019s leftist government to slow the gentrification of a city that built a reputation on a creative scene but is being squeezed by real estate investors and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/31\/world\/europe\/berlin-gentrification-rent.html\">Berlin Freezes Rents for 5 Years in a Bid to Slow Gentrification &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 Rental prices on more than 1.5 million Berlin apartments will be frozen or lowered for five years as a result of new legislation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[58,59,60],"class_list":["post-33496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","tag-berlin","tag-gentrification","tag-housing-policies","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}