
Interview with Urs Ledermann: Can we have a real discussion about his arguments?
I was reading the article and yes its from the trashpaper 20min and therefore also the comment of the respective quality.
Let review his arguments that he pretends that the left are the culprit for high rents:
- higher bureaucracy make building more expensive - valid argument (but it does by protecting th one living for example in appartments at low rent to not be kickedout)
- we need to build more - valid argument (yup Genossenschaften and non profit oriented landlords not you)
- landlords don’t benefit from high rents - clearly nonsense
- ”i know nobody who can’t find an appartment in zuerich” - clearly he doesn’t know anyone or at least nobody outside of his rich friends
For me: Who captures the economic value created when we allow more housing to be built?
Lets no get fooled by these people! Why do we give our own Trumps/SVP and other immobilien moguls such platforms without fact checking or properly analyse his arguments? All he wants is stearing the chaos to get lower regulations and build more and raise his profits… and tries to be charming with “old building have a story to tell”.