Life or Vacant Space
2024-05-29
Frankfurt is vacant. In every neighbourhood, in every street, there is a residential building with no one but the wind in it, a new luxury
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Frankfurt is vacant. In every neighbourhood, in every street, there is a residential building with no one but the wind in it, a new luxury
Only one and a half years left until the next elections, and still the current federal government has brought no improvements for tenants. The parties
After a long period of time, once again there have been some successful occupations of housing in the recent years, in which activists have appropriated
New construction is collapsing: we are experiencing a historic market failure, but the tenants’ movement and the left have long ignored the issue of new
Housing cooperatives have been around in Germany for ages. They make an important contribution to the provision of affordable rental housing. At the end of
The “rent brake” is one of the few instruments that tenants can use to defend themselves against high rents. The problem is that many tenants
Forced eviction is the most violent type of displacement: more than 27,300 homes were evicted in Germany in 2022; and even that only documents the
