Since 2019, groups, initiatives and associations across Europe have been calling for demonstrations,
rallies, smaller public campaigns and events every spring to mark Housing Action Days. As a decentralized and self-organized concept, the Housing Action Days find their individual expression in local cities. The international area is currently mainly coordinated by the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City (EAC). The Housing Action Days are one of the few continuous and transnational action formats for housing policy and right-to-the-city groups in Europe and now also globally. In Germany, an increased exchange between the individual local groups and initiatives takes place every year in the run-up to the Housing Action Days. We would like to use the workshop to consolidate this supra-regional exchange between local groups and initiatives. The aim of the workshop is to get to know and discuss the Housing Action Days as a format - in particular on questions of organization, communication and content. Representatives of groups from Cologne and Leipzig, among others, who have organized Housing Actions Days in their cities several times in recent years, will report and invite you to contrast/compare this with the experiences from other cities. Building on this, we want to explore with you whether and how the action format could be made better known and more widely established in the coming years - and for what purposes.

Who: Werner (Recht auf Stadt, Köln) und Robin (Stadtteilinitiative Vernetzung Süd Leipzig-Connewitz/Südvorstadt)

Language: German