Vonovia wants to sell rented apartments in Köpenick. BZ editor Martina Hafner comments Photo: Olaf Selchow/BZ-Montage
By Martina Hafner
For many people, losing your home is the worst threat of today.
This happened to my mother during the financial crisis. Their cooperative apartment in southern Germany was sold off without much fuss. Buy yourself? It was impossible given the insane price. My mom was lucky and found a new rental apartment. But she still hasn’t gotten over the shock of the brutal loss of her home.
Now the tenants of 200 apartments in Köpenick are affected. Where are the politicians who otherwise talk loudly about the Alliance for Housing? Who helps the tenants? Questions to which politics must provide answers. And quickly.