Karl Marx allée in Berlin. In 2018, housing activists seized an unoccupied building on this street to protest unaffordable rental housing in the city.
In Germany’s largest city, unaffordable rents made an appearance on the international affordable housing stage in 2018, thanks to activists who were arrested for occupying a Berlin building to publicize their cause. Read more at Reuters: Squatters Raise Alarm About Berlin Housing Crisis
Now the city is getting ready to experiment with several ideas they hope will help slow the rising cost of rental accommodation. Examples include: banning landlords from owning too many properties, and buying up rental properties in order to impose city-controlled management.
Read more in Bloomberg CITYLAB: Berlin Builds An Arsenal Of Ideas To Stage A Housing Revolution
