Action Alliance against Housing Shortage and Urban Degradation, Newsletter 145
Rally for the tenants of Wallstraße 31 on July 8, 2023 in front of the house of the owners Im Hasengarten 11, 50996 Köln-Hahnwald.
When we stood in front of the house Wallstraße 31 on April 22, we protested not only against the owners of the former hotel, but also against the city of Cologne. See our newsletters 134 and 135.
https://www.express.de/koeln/wohn-posse-koelner-lebt-13-jahre-in-kneipe-jetzt-droht-aerger-1-553339
In the meantime, there is a public commitment by the city of Cologne to preserve the apartments at Wallstraße 31 and a promise to support the owner in legalizing the apartments.
Not approved as a residential building
Eviction threatens – City of Cologne continues to wait for important application
https://www.express.de/koeln/nach-protest-aktion-jetzt-ist-koelns-ob-reker-gefordert-556054
Solidarity celebration for the Socialist Self-Help Mülheim on July 1, 2023
Heinz Weinhausen presents in review of the very nice festival on the SSM-Cloud lots of photos and lots of info about the Erbpachtmisere:
https://magentacloud.de/s/X2r42ARY3MgQm2Y
On lokalfoto.com is a video of the expert talk about the ground lease:
https://www.lokalfoto.com/ssm-koeln-kampf-um-erbpachtvertrag/
Fear for location
Prominent supporters at the solidarity festival for homeless people in Cologne-Mülheim
https://www.rundschau-online.de/koeln/muelheim/muelheim-veedel/koeln-solidaritaetsfest-fuer-wohnungslose-in-koeln-muelheim-602436
https://www.ksta.de/koeln/muelheim/muelheim-veedel/koeln-solidaritaetsfest-fuer-wohnungslose-in-koeln-muelheim-602436
To read
Marie Therese Haj Ahmad: Of Inclusions and Exclusions in Europe. An ethnographic study of EU migration and homelessness in Germany. Münster 2022
https://www.dampfboot-verlag.de/filepool/getfile/dampfboot/?datei=/dateien/download/OA-130-HajAhmad.pdf
Katharina Brüchmann, Volker Busch-Geertsema, Jutta Henke, Sandra Schöpke, Axel Steffen: Homeless without shelter and concealed homeless in North Rhine-Westphalia. Results of a survey. Düsseldorf 2022. can be ordered or downloaded:
https://www.mags.nrw/hilfe-bei-wohnungslosigkeit
Sina Moussa-Lipp: Urban Change from the Perspective of Women Residents.
https://www.academia.edu/75684555/St%C3%A4dtischer_Wandel_aus_Sicht_der_BewohnerInnen
Vilim Brezima: Impulses for a different urban development
https://www.academia.edu/29230366/Impulsgeber_f%C3%BCr_eine_andere_Stadtentwicklung
Sarah Schillinger: “Solidary Cities. Urban Politics between Citizenship and Charity.” https://www.academia.edu/38843248/Solidarische_St%C3%A4dte_Urbane_Politik_zwischen_Citizenship_und_Charity?email_work_card=title
To listen
CONTINUITIES IN THE STIGMATIZATION OF “ANTISOCIALITY”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwGlHzR_LU
Susanne Gerull: Continuities of stigmatization of homeless people in the 20th & 21st centuries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2uiShMfqh8
Exhibition ‘asozial’ – Exclusion yesterday and today
https://www.ravensbrueckerinnen.at/?page_id=7517
Broadcasts, reports, news
Nightmare for mother-of-three41-year-old from Cologne escapes eviction at the last moment
https://www.express.de/koeln/koeln-porz-dreifach-mutter-sollte-zwangsgeraeumt-werden-603950
What can help against exploding rents, Mr. Siebenkotten? https://www.gmx.net/magazine/politik/hilft-explodierende-mieten-herr-siebenkotten-38378178
The silent one
As a young woman, Klara Geywitz danced in the Potsdam squatter scene. Today, she is Minister of Construction and Housing. How does she fight the housing shortage?
https://taz.de/Archiv-Suche/!5939857&s=Jasmin%2BKalarickal&SuchRahmen=Print/
100 pages of political explosives
An expert report shows that it is legally possible to socialize profit-oriented housing companies. Whether politicians want it is another question
https://taz.de/Archiv-Suche/!5939858&s=Jasmin%2BKalarickal&SuchFrame=Print/
Financial authority combs through data of 56,000 German Airbnb users
Booking data from many Airbnb users is being sent by Hamburg’s tax authority to the tax administrations of the German states for review. The risk for dishonest landlords is increasing, the authority warns.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/airbnb-hamburger-finanzbehoerde-fragt-daten-von-56-000-deutschen-nutzern-ab-a-132b4952-6877-418f-936b-fecaf64b09f6
Dates
08.07.2023, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Protest rally for the tenants of Wallstrasse 31 at the owners Im Hasengarte 11, 50996 Cologne-Hahnwald
21.07.2023, 12 – 15 o’clock, memorial day for deceased drug users at Vision e.V. https://www.vision-ev.de/?p=18154
09.08.2023, 12 – 16 h, OASE summer party, Alfred Schütte Allee 4
17.08.2023, 15:30 Social committee
07.09.2023, 15:30 Council of the City of Cologne
For a city without homelessness
For a city without forced evictions
For a city without drug deaths
For a city without violence against women and children
For a city without deportations
For a city without poverty
July 08, 2023
Klaus Jünschke and Rainer Kippe
https://wohnungsnot.koeln
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