This February 2019 research guide aims to help tenants* answer two questions:
Who owns my apartment? Who earns from my rent?
Browsing: Eviction
Steadily rising rents, housing shortages, gentrification. Three buzzwords of a complex that is as commonplace as it is debilitating for many people. What specifically to do when there is no more affordable housing?
Workshop series, critical city walks, publications or research workshops – the registered association, which in its subtitle describes itself, refreshingly laconic, as “Just another Critical Geography Group”, works in various formats and is a free association of activists, geographers, social scientists and others.
The PENG! Collective writes on the website of their “Haunted Landlord” campaign to resist rent increases, gentrification and eviction: “With this action we want to make this area-wide, structural problem visible and audible through personal stories and confront those responsible directly with the voices of the displaced and the consequences of their actions.(…)”
In the summer of 2014, the Green district government of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg attempted to forcibly evict the Gerhart-Hauptmann School, which was…