Berlin’s vote against big landlords could be a watershed moment
Oct 08, 2021
3 minutes
Alexander Vasudevan
With coalition talks under way to form Germany’s next government, the reverberations of last month’s election will be felt for quite a while. But one of the most significant developments in voters’ trip to the polls was a local referendum in Berlin, which strongly endorsed a campaign to expropriate properties owned by large corporate landlords.
More than a million Berliners supported the campaign Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co, which
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