RENT REBELS – Resistance against the sell-out of the city
Director Schulte Westenberg | Coers Gertrud | Matthias
Countries Germany
Duration 78 min
Synopsis
BERLIN In the last years the German capital has changed a lot. Flats that once were unattractive are now being used as secure investment objects. The transformation into freehold flats and massive rent increases become an everyday phenomenon. The visible tenant protests in the vibrant metropolis of Berlin are a reaction to the growing shortage of affordable housing., The movie is a kaleidoscope of the tenants’ struggles in Berlin against their displacement out of their neighbourhood communities. Ranging from the occupation of the Berlin town hall to a camp at Kottbusser Tor, the organised prevention of evictions and the struggle of senior citizens for their community center and age-appropriate flats, a new urban protest movement is on the rise.
BERLIN In the last years the German capital has changed a lot. Flats that once were unattractive are now being used as secure investment objects. The transformation into freehold flats and massive rent increases become an everyday phenomenon. The visible tenant protests in the vibrant metropolis of Berlin are a reaction to the growing shortage of affordable housing., The movie is a kaleidoscope of the tenants’ struggles in Berlin against their displacement out of their neighbourhood communities. Ranging from the occupation of the Berlin town hall to a camp at Kottbusser Tor, the organised prevention of evictions and the struggle of senior citizens for their community center and age-appropriate flats, a new urban protest movement is on the rise.