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Even if the smoke has cleared a little after the attack on Rigaer 94, this does not mean that the struggles for affordable and decent housing in Berlin and elsewhere have stopped. Every year, many other tenants fear anew for their flat and thus for their centre of life. The prospects of finding a halfway affordable flat in this city tend towards zero for most people with an average salary.
The death of Peter Hollinger on 31 May 2021 shows that this fear can also have deadly consequences. After a three-year, unsuccessful court case against an eviction action due to owner-occupancy, the 67-year-old musician and long-established Kreuzberger killed himself. This is not the first death in connection with evictions. It is also worth remembering the death of Rosemarie F. who died two days after her eviction in a Berlin homeless shelter. In both cases, it was clear in the run-up to the eviction what immense pressure and psychological stress the people concerned had been subjected to and in both cases, from a medical point of view, an eviction was urgently advised against. The fatal consequence was accepted in favour of a property issue.
When, with the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, the voices became louder that landlords should please react “accommodatingly” to any corona-related payment difficulties and that evictions should please be suspended, we had no illusions about what was actually going to happen. The eviction of the Mutiny, Liebig 34 and the Syndicate, as well as the upcoming evictions of the bookshop Kisch&Co, the Köpi and the Potse speak a clear language. What is glorified in the media as the struggle of autonomists against the city is in fact the logic of a real estate market whose victims are not selected according to political identity but according to economic exploitability. The fact that housing has become a commodity and an object of speculation for property managers leaves all those in permanent fear for their existence who are financially unable to pay the constantly rising rents.
That’s why we torched a Vonovia car last night on Einsteinufer in the Tiergarten district.
The pandemic did little harm to the housing business. Especially companies like Vonovia continued to raise rents regularly. The average rent of Vonovia flats in 2021 is already 3.5 per cent higher than a year ago. We don’t care what lip service companies like Vonovia try to pay to their profit-oriented and anti-human housing policies. As long as private, listed and thus profit-oriented real estate companies, with short connections to politics, determine our housing and thus our lives, we will attack them.
All people have a need for their own housing!
Against the city of the rich!
In memory of all those who have lost their lives because of this anti-human logic of profit!
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