Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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340 MANNHEIM. A Si ; * With the growth of industry and population in Mannheim there has been a marked rise in rents. At the beginning of the new century there was a tem porary decline in its fortunes ; many houses were empty, and rents fell. Since 1904 the demand for dwellings of the kind most needed has exceeded the supply, and rents have advanced, as a consequence, to the extent of from 5 to 10 per cent. A considerable amount of speculation has strengthened this upward tendency. In the following statement of predominant rents paid for working-class dwellings, tenements of one room with kitchen and of two rooms without kitchen are classed together, since the cost is approximately the same. Tene ments of a single room without kitchen are probably in most cases what are known as “ divided tenements,” that is, tenements formed by the curtailment of a normal suite of two or three rooms with kitchen, yet they play an important part in the housing system of Mannheim. As has already been shown, these tenements of one apartment form only 3T per cent, of all the rented dwellings of the town, but of the 2,156 rent returns which have been collected for the purpose of the present classification they form 14T per cent. The returns relate to 2,156 dwellings of the following sizes :— One room without kitchen ... 304 = 14T per cent. One room with kitchen ... Two rooms without kitchen Two rooms with kitchen ... Three rooms with kitchen 624 = 186 = 608 = 434 = 29-0 8'6 28-2 201 Predomina?it Rents of Working-class Dwellings. Number of Rooms per Tenement. Predominant Weekly Rent. One room Two rooms Three rooms Four rooms Is. 5d. to 2s. 4cl. 2s. 9cl. „ 3s. 8c/. 4s. 2d. „ 6s 0d. 6s. OcZ. „ 9s. 3c/. The rent includes, as a rule, the charge for water and the cost of refuse removal and chimney sweeping. Kent is high in Mannheim, the index number being 64, as compared with 100 for Berlin. The local taxes to which the working classes of Mannheim, as of Baden towns generally, are subject are a municipal income tax, based on the State income tax, and a church tax, which in the case of mixed marriages must be paid in moieties to both churches. The water rate is a separate charge, and is generally levied by the landlord in the rent. The State income tax falls on all incomes of £45 and above (before 1904 the exemption limit was £25), but the municipality assesses lower incomes at the uniform figure of £5, since the municipal franchise is based on the payment of local taxes. Incomes of £45 and above are taxed on a reduced assessment—£45 on £l0, £50 on £12 10a., £55 on £15, £60 on £17 10a., £65 on £20, £70 on £22 10a., £75 on £25, £80 on £27 10a., &c.— and the State income tax is 2a. 4'8<Z. per £5 (2-40 marks per 100 marks) of assessed income up to £10, and 3a. per £5 on assessed income from £12 10a. to £1,250. The effect is as follows :— Income Group. State Assessment. £15 £50 £55 £60 £65 £70 £75 £80 £ a. 10 0 12 10 15 0 17 10 20 0 22 10 25 0 27 10 State Income Tax. S. d. 4 10 7 6 9 0 10 6 12 0 13 6 15 0 16 6

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