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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

Social inequality and refugees and homeless people in Cologne “How is there to be a city without anti-Semitism, without racism and without sexism if social inequality continues to increase? How is universal fear to disappear from the city as long as people fall through the meshes of the social net into the bottomless pit?” (On… Continue reading Newsletter 101 of September 3, 2022

Action Alliance against Housing Shortage and Urban Degradation, Newsletter 103Protest and resistance against rising living costsAt the European Summer University of Social Movements in August, the Forum on Capitalism addressed the question of whether we are witnessing a transition to a new form of development of capitalism. And if so, what form will it take?Speakers… Continue reading Newsletter 103 – 17 September 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

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

(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

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

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

Helping and political work  Poverty makes you sick and illness makes you poor. For decades, my most important concern has been to bring this deplorable state of affairs into the public eye and to try to give affected people back a piece of dignity as a social worker and doctor. (Gerhard Trabert) https://gerhardtrabert.de/ Prof. Dr.… Continue reading Newsletter 93 of 2 July 2022