This video is a presentation by Sibylle Kaczorek at Ecosocialism 2022 on last year's Berlin housing referendum in which over a million people voted to expropriate the big land holders in favour of public housing.
The campaign targeted corporations owning more than 3000 rental properties and made a difference to people's lives until overturned by the Court.
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