Published 3 years ago

Berlin’s vote to take properties from big landlords could be a watershed moment

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More than a million Berliners supported the campaign Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co, which targeted companies holding 3,000 or more apartments. In total, 240,000 properties, or 11% of all apartments in Berlin, would come under the terms of the initiative. The vote isn’t legally binding, so it is now up to the city’s government, which was also elected on 26 September, to decide whether to move forward.

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Berlin’s vote to take properties from big landlords could be a watershed moment

The successful referendum to expropriate the city’s apartments from corporate landlords is a potential template for EuropeWith coalition talks that could last months under way to form Germany’s next government, the reverberations of Sunday’s election will be felt for quite a while. But one of the most significant developments in voters’ weekend trip to the polls was a local referendum in Berlin, which strongly endorsed a campaign to expropriate …

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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