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Blaczko (En)

Blaczko? definitely celebrated too early.

It was more than a year and a half ago: On 15 April 2021 in the morning, it was announced that the rent cap in Berlin was history. That same evening, 10,000 angry tenants took to the streets. In the

MGB Redaktion December 11, 2022

Tenant Organizing

New on the cityscape: Landlord Uwe Flemming

Summer this year. A Berlin landlord wants to evict a flat-sharing community on Mehringdamm, it is not really clear why. Their legal situation is very shaky. Eventually they all move out. But it doesn’t stop there. The neighbours and we

MGB Redaktion December 11, 2022

Housing policy

Fields of Desolation or Turned from Goat to Gardener: The Giffey-Vonovia Alliance

We live in a society in which we all – every day – have to fear new decisions about our lives. And we live in a city that has been sold off by unscrupulous politicians. The same parties that have

MGB Redaktion June 24, 2022

Debate & theory

Living Rent – the scottish tenant union

Living Rent is a tenants union in Scotland that has grown steadily since its formation in 2014 and now has thousands of members as well as branches in the major Scottish cities. We spoke to Emma Saunders, National Organiser of

MGB Redaktion May 27, 2022

Neighborhood

Kiez meeting Pankow

Every last saturday of the month at 5pm, neighbours come together in Pankow for a Kiez meeting. Current topics: pre-emptive buying, sold houses, end of social housing, transformation into property flats. Meeting point: Starplatz (between Stargarder Str. / Duncker Str.)

MGB Redaktion August 27, 2021

Debate & theory

Frankfurt Tenants’ Union: Local leaders as key for organising

Not only in Berlin, but also in other cities, tenants and activists are trying to build tenants’ unions. We want to document their first steps, how they work and what they have already achieved. Because we can learn a lot

MGB Redaktion June 14, 2021

Blaczko (En)

Blaczko tenants fight back against bad rental practice and harassment!

Questionable tenancy agreements, permanent construction sites, harassment – the Blaczko property management company has worked hard to earn its bad reputation. Now tenants in 25 Berlin buildings are organising themselves and have founded the “Blaczko Tenants’ Initiative” together with us.

MGB Redaktion June 14, 2021

News from the MGB

IT Working Group in the making

You are against high rents and for a city from below? You have IT knowledge or interest in the topic? Then this could be something for you: The IT working group of the Mieter:innen Gewerkschaft Berlin is looking for new

MGB Redaktion March 23, 2021

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