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Decades of policies against their own citizens also includes increasing the cost of living and leaving a lot of people behind. This was happening before covid.

Berlin is a case in point. e.g. the story of someone's friend, a single mum, whose huge corporate landlord decided to renovate the apartment in order to double the rent and then force her out of her own neighborhood. Tough luck, people say, that is the price of progress and it is a free market. Well, people are pissed off, and justifiably.



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