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by corty 1740 days ago
Problem is, "not be paying market rates" will never happen. Market rates will be paid, because disowning anyone for the public good is only constitutional, if market rates are paid as restitution. There have been lots and lots of cases around disowned people lost by the state because of that.
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There are often ways around that. For example the state can manipulate the markets, or offer an alternate choice, for example to never raise rents ever.
Lowering rents was part of the plan anyways, I think. Market manipulation through rent caps has been tried before and (in the Berlin version) declared unconstitutional.
It's constitutional, it was just ruled it wasn't a municipal faculty