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Mieten Law Clinic

Tenants find out without fuss how high their rent is allowed to be - volunteer-run and with no profit motive.

mietenlawclinic.de (opens in a new tab)

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Mieten Law Clinic - Home page of mietenlawclinic.deenlarge
Home page of mietenlawclinic.de
  • Mieten Law Clinic - Advice: the process in three stepsenlarge
    Advice: the process in three steps
  • Mieten Law Clinic - About the initiativeenlarge
    About the initiative
  • Mieten Law Clinic - Getting involved as an adviser, as a member or with a donationenlarge
    Getting involved as an adviser, as a member or with a donation

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Starting point

Germany’s rent cap gives tenants a strong right - but only if they know that their rent is too high. Checking it requires knowing the local rent index, the exemptions and the deadlines. That is exactly where it breaks down in practice: the obstacle is not the legal entitlement but access to it.

Approach

For this volunteer-run initiative we designed and built the website mietenlawclinic.de. Beyond that, we supported the team behind mietencheck.de, the application that performs the actual rent check.

Outcome

A website that makes the initiative visible and guides tenants to the check on mietencheck.de, and to advice where a case gets complex. Operation and further development stay in the initiative’s own hands.

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