Yesterday, 22.09.2022, the Pioneer Park was inaugurated in Südstadt with access via Bischofsweg 48-50. The name is provisional. On the website for this project, there is a photo of the site from a bird’s eye view on the home page: https://www.parkstadt-sued.de/. At the lower end of the park in the direction of Bonner Straße are… Continue reading OMZ unforgotten
Author: Werner Eggert
Newsletter 102, 10 September 2022
Action Alliance against Housing Shortage and Urban Degradation, Newsletter 102 The NRW alliance “We want to live!” is sounding the alarm. The stock of publicly subsidised housing has already been reduced from around 1.4 million to less than 450,000. According to NRW.BANK’s calculations, 46% of these will fall out of the subsidised housing stock by… Continue reading Newsletter 102, 10 September 2022
Newsletter 100 of 27 August 2022
[Abolish Homelessness – Finland and Germany] – [For a City without Poverty] – [Programmes, News] – [Recommended Reading] – [Dates]. Abolishing homelessness – Finland and Germany Finland as a role model The editors of the Hamburg street newspaper “HinzundKunzt” noticed during their visit to Helsinki that they did not see any homeless people on the… Continue reading Newsletter 100 of 27 August 2022
Newsletter 99 of 22 August 2022
1 Josef Berditchevski On 17 August 2022, the Stadt-Anzeiger headlined its article about the story of the musician Josef Berichevski, who was shot on 3 August 2022, with “Death on notice” and in the subtitle with “the story of a failure” it refers to an interpretation that we do not share. He did not shoot… Continue reading Newsletter 99 of 22 August 2022
Invitation
Saturday, 20 August 2022 – 11:11 a.m. – Vigil – Vacancy – Rally Because we do not simply accept vacancy, we meet every Saturday at 11:11 am for a rally in front of the vacant houses of the Russian Federation in Friedrich Engels Straße/ corner of Berrenrather Straße in Cologne-Sülz.Next Saturday, 20 August 2022, we… Continue reading Invitation
Mourning rally for Josef Berditchevski
Kalle Gerigk had announced the mourning rally that took place yesterday in front of the house Gernsheimer Straße 17 in Cologne-Ostheim. This was the home of Jouzef Berditchevski, who was shot by two police officers on 3 August 2022 when he was to be evicted and resisted. Before the rally, an article by Andi Goral… Continue reading Mourning rally for Josef Berditchevski
Newsletter 97 of 6 August 2022
(1) [Fatal Forced Embrace] – (2)[3,000 new social housing units for Cologne every year] – (3)[When will refugees and the homeless be treated equally] – (4)[For a city without violence against women and children] – (5) [Programmes, reports, news] – (a)[Housing construction in Cologne since 2010] – (b)[Vonovia] – (c)[Stern-TV] – (d)[Berlin tenants] – (e)[Vacant… Continue reading Newsletter 97 of 6 August 2022
Vigil photo gallery
Galeria zdjęć z czuwania Galerie foto de la priveghi Photos of our action days Zdjęcia z naszych dni akcji Fotografii din zilele noastre de acțiune 2 April 2022 2 kwietnia 2022 r.2 aprilie 2022 9 April 2022 9 kwietnia 2022 r.9 aprilie 2022 25 June and 23 July 2022 25 czerwca i 23 lipca 2022… Continue reading Vigil photo gallery
newsletter 95 – 16 July 2022
Social housing for Cologne When we talk about social housing, we say it like the urban researcher Hartmut Häußermann: “Social housing follows a simple idea: poor people should live well. The Bauhaus motto, on the other hand, says: We adapt the houses to poverty. That is, to put it kindly, a questionable idea.”https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/sozialer-staedtebau-wie-reiche-die-armen-aus-den-staedten-verdraengen-a-564649.html The Stadt-Anzeiger… Continue reading newsletter 95 – 16 July 2022
Newsletter 94 of 9 July 2022
European Platform to tackle homelessness One year ago, all 27 EU member states committed to concrete measures to combat homelessness at the conference in Lisbon – By 2030, no one in the EU should have to live on the streets anymore. According to the EU Commission, around 700,000 people in the EU currently sleep on… Continue reading Newsletter 94 of 9 July 2022
