Soundings in Berlin: Whom the socialization under red-green-red in Berlin threatens

The plans for large housing stocks in Berlin are becoming concrete. How many apartments are there? Who but Vonovia is affected? And which explosive law is now coming into focus?

The Left, the Greens and the SPD want to get serious with the socialization plans for large housing stocks in Berlin. This emerges from the exploratory paper presented on Saturday by the three possible coalition partners in the next Berlin Senate. Compared with the demands of the initiative “Expropriate German Housing & Co”, which had led a corresponding referendum to success five years ago, the socialization plans in the exploratory paper are significantly smaller. Both the number of apartments eligible for socialization and the expected compensation figures to the real estate companies concerned would be approximately halved.

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From a small town in Massachusetts, the economist Isabella Weber catapults herself into Berlin politics. In their theses, some questions remain open.

In Asia, children should take care of their parents for a lifetime. But that doesn’t work anymore, so the city-state of Singapore introduces assisted living – so far with rather moderate success.