Berlin, Germany – Last year, documentary filmmaker Felix Gaedtke got the kind of news that renters anywhere in the world would dread. But in Berlin, where 85 percent of the population rents the roofs over their heads, it has also inspired a controversial grassroots campaign to nationalise large swaths of the city’s corporate-owned housing stock. “We want this to be …
BERLIN — Affordable housing advocates in Berlin launched a grassroots campaign Saturday to force the city’s government into taking over nearly 250,000 apartments worth billions from corporate owners to curb rising rents in one of Germany’s hottest real estate markets. “There need to be some rules here for the game — it’s a city, not just open land for people …
