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(S +) Real estate crisis in Berlin: A city becomes a living laboratory

12/15/2021, 11:46:12 PM

The people are calling for "expropriation", the Senate is not getting a lid on the pressure to rent, the stock exchange is cheering: Berlin is wavering between social experimentation and house-to-house warfare. How could the German housing problem be solved?

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Protest against real estate speculation in Berlin: who owns the city?

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Stefan Boness / IPON

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