<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Birgit Daiber</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bir.dai@hotmail.com">bir.dai@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:49 PM<br>Subject: [CommonGood] Berlin Awakening<br>To: <a href="mailto:commongood@listi.jpberlin.de">commongood@listi.jpberlin.de</a> <<a href="mailto:commongood@listi.jpberlin.de">commongood@listi.jpberlin.de</a>>, <a href="mailto:transform-commons-wg@googlegroups.com">transform-commons-wg@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:transform-commons-wg@googlegroups.com">transform-commons-wg@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm working on an article "The Right to the City" for the Transform-Seminar 31.5./2.6. in Zagreb, but as I just was interviewing activists in Berlin running a wonderful campaign on housing, here a short information:</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Every year about 40 000 people arrive in Berlin and try to find a living. Beyond the hype
of glamour and politics Berlin is a working-class city. Traditionally most of it’s citizens do not own houses. Still today 86 % live in social housing ore privately rented flats. As in all globalized cities real estate run by hedge-fonds became one of the
big businesses in Berlin. In the last five years rents increased about 50 % - means traditional tenants are evicted and no “normal” family is any more able to find a place to live. In this extremely tense situation activists remembered a wonderful and never
practised article in the German Constitution: Art. 15 says<span> </span><b>“</b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">Land, natural resources and means of production may for the purpose of socialisation be transferred to public ownership
or other forms of public enterprise by a law that determines the nature and extent of compensation.”</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">Since March 2019 now activists campaign for a referendum to expropriate big private housing-companies,
and it’s going rather well. Until mid-June they have to deliver 20 000 signatures (already completed), after proof by Berlin-Senate the Referendum can be started. The referendum needs the mayority of 35 % of the eligible voters to be successful. Already now
the campaign provoked extensive political debates all over the country – because the situation is not better in other cities. And for sure, the traditional political scene is deeply shocked.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></p>
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Yours, Birgit</div>
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