Here is an article to the current struggles of tenants in the Forster Road 8 in the current issue of the tenant echoes Berlin Tenants Community Association
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"The displacement of renters through modernization and rising rents
are on everyone's lips. An example from forest roads in Kreuzberg, shows that a well-organized household profit maximization wishes
Homeowners may invoke quite a bit.
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to the renters to get rent increases of between 50% and 80%. "After upgrading my rent will increase from currently 300 to 502 euros," says a resident of the house angry .
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First step: to prevent house meeting
To modernize, the Forster Street benefit anyone, it was decided at a first house meeting to stand up together against the measures announced by the new owner. With the aid of a lawyer of the Berlin Community renter, a strategy was developed. The actions of the landlord should be allowed to return without premature to initiate their own legal action. First of all tenants refused to modernize the basis of formal notice from error. After a second, this time no formal announcement was objectionable, decided the household, in the invitation to submit to the modernization not collectively meet.
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Entmietung fears
"We come want to think not but that we have the owners through this difficult life action and move to the statement, "a tenant of the house. The tenants inside the harbor suspicions that in some cases up to 20 years old leases preclude the return expectations of the owners.
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have the whole, the residents of Forster Street 8 shows that renters collecting interests of the lessor must not be yielded without a fight. Renters with the most diverse backgrounds together, can be oppositional and found legal means to achieve more than is often believed. "
