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इंक़लाब ज़िन्दाबाद
@karishma4va
“More than 80% of Berliners are tenants and the rents have doubled in the last 10 to 15 years. That's why we want to expropriate corporate landlords who have more than 3,000 apartments in the city, in order to lower rents...”
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Berlin residents to vote in referendum on seizing rentals from corporate landlords | CBC Radio
Residents in Berlin, fed up with increasingly high rents, have secured a referendum on housing that could have reverberations across Europe.
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@karishma4va
“As part of a coalition of renter initiatives, neighborhood groups and tenant associations, our campaign is one brawny arm of the renters’ movement. That’s where the radical expropriation campaign got its start. We are simply one campaign alongside others..”
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Thomas McGath
@tamcgath
Hello new followers. 👋 How did @dwenteignen win one of the most radical campaigns out there, demanding the city expropriate some 250,000 apartments? People power and organizing. Here’s my article in @ROAR_Magazine about it from 2019: roarmag.org/essays/berlin-
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@karishma4va
What’s more exciting about this referendum is that it shifts ownership of these properties into a community land trust. If Berliners succeed, it will safeguard quality public housing in the city, regardless of which political party is in power in the future. HUGE!
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Rentstrike Aotearoa
@rentstrikenz
We congratulate the renters of Berlin in winning their referendum to expropriate Berlin's landlords and put the housing under the ownership and control of a community land trust. We should do the same here to help end the housing crisis. dw.com/en/germany-ber
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