Government Puts Rental Price Brake on Rail

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In the fight against high inflation, the government put a package of measures on the rail in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. It provides above all for housing rents to remain affordable. As this year, there will also be a rental price cover, which will benefit 2.7 million people in Austria from April 2026. This is what the government's rental package looks like in detail: For the first time, price interventions in unregulated rentsA new "…

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After the Council of Ministers, the government applied for its rental package on Wednesday. In December, the National Council is to vote on the government proposal, so that the measures can take effect at the beginning of 2026, said Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler (SPÖ). The package, which the government agreed on in September, includes interventions in regulated and unregulated rents, which will dampen inflation in the future.