First residents persuaded the local authorities to bring in a rent cap that instructed landlords to freeze rents at 2019 levels.

However, that was overturned by Germany’s federal court in April, which ruled the measures unconstitutional.

Now local campaigners are planning something even more radical: a bid to nationalize thousands of privately owned apartments in the city.

Specifically, campaigners want the government to take apartments from real estate firms that own more than 3,000 apartments, place them into public ownership, and rent them out at more affordable rates.

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