Housing

Perspektive Online · Housing Thinner ceilings, fewer sockets: Do new cheap apartments mean lower rents? A proposal to change the law by two SPD ministers envisages lowering building standards and “doing without unnecessary bells and whistles”. 29 Oct 2026 · 4h

nd · Housing Poverty | Every second tenant has to limit their living space due to high housing costs High rents are becoming more and more of a burden - even family planning is now affected. This is what a survey shows. 29 Oct 2026 · 9h

Truthout · Housing Ahead of Midterms, Tenants Call Trump’s Housing Policy a “Catastrophic Failure” Housing justice advocates say new policy proposals would empower landlords while squeezing already struggling tenants. 28 Oct 2026 · 19h

nd · Housing Gentrification in Greece | The disappointed heart of Exarchia In Athens, the residents of the trendy Exarchia district are resisting displacement and tourism. In doing so, they discover new ways of resi 28 Oct 2026 · 1d

Perspektive Online · Housing “Investment Protection Act” is intended to stop socialization Interior Minister Dobrindt presents a concrete proposal that would make nationalization of living space, as planned in Berlin, almost imposs 28 Oct 2026 · 1d

World Socialist Web Site · Housing Homeless woman dies in Montreal-North: A case of social murder The death of a homeless woman in a fire earlier this month was a social murder committed by a financial oligarchy that enriches itself throu 28 Oct 2026 · 2d

taz · Housing Rent protests in Spain: Sánchez under rent pressure Thousands of people are camping in Madrid for affordable housing. Before the new elections, they hope to change more than the housing market 27 Oct 2026 · 2d

nd · Housing socialization | Because of the threat of expropriation: Heimstaden stops investments The Heimstaden real estate group does not want to invest any more money in Germany - because of the preparations for a corporateization law. 27 Oct 2026 · 2d

Morning Star · Housing Prevention key to get homeless off streets by Christmas, PM told Burnham announces doubling of homelessness funding at first national rough sleeping summit in Downing Street 26 Oct 2026 · 3d

Morning Star · Housing Budget set to boost social housing and expand the powers of England’s mayors THE Budget will provide more than £1 billion for social and affordable housing and give England’s mayors greater powers, the Treasury said o 25 Oct 2026 · 4d

taz · Housing Social protests in Europe: For good education, affordable rents and moderate prices Not only in France, but also in Albania, Spain and Italy, people are demonstrating against grievances at schools and universities and agains 25 Oct 2026 · 4d

Morning Star · Housing Scottish charities urge Chancellor to end homelessness in budget SCOTTISH charities are demanding Westminster “show intent” to end homelessness by scrapping the benefits cap and so-called bedroom tax in We 25 Oct 2026 · 4d

ZNetwork · Housing Socialize All Housing In 1872, the German socialist newspaper Der Volksstaat ran a series of articles on housing. The breakneck growth of industrial cities had br 25 Oct 2026 · 4d

Video Socialist Project · Housing Housing Fight – Claim Our Corner Moss Park Residents in Toronto, housing advocates and community service providers gathered at All Saints Church Community Centre on October 25 Oct 2026 · 4d

ZNetwork · Housing Tenant Power on Display in Jersey City On Sunday, September 13th, a crowd of a few dozen organizers and tenants living at 150 and 154 Belmont Ave. swelled outside their buildings. 23 Oct 2026 · 6d

Novara Media · Housing Berlin s Plan to Take Back Homes Will Cost Europe’s Biggest Landlord £7bn Europe’s largest residential landlord is set to lose €8.4bn (£7bn) as a result of plans by leftwing political party Die Linke to bring more 23 Oct 2026 · 6d

Morning Star · Housing Cutting frequency of homelessness death stats a ‘scandal,’ say Scottish Greens A SCOTTISH Green MSP today branded a plan to publish numbers of homelessness deaths every two years rather than annually a “scandal.” The mo 23 Oct 2026 · 6d

Truthout · Housing Tenants Unions Anticipate Housing Policy Gains After Progressives Win in RI Reclaim Rhode Island demonstrates the power of tenant organizing to effect change in local politics. 23 Oct 2026 · 6d

ZNetwork · Housing Spain s Orphaned Housing Vote Spain votes on November 29 in a snap general election, and less than four weeks before the official campaign opens, housing, which in my rea 22 Oct 2026 · 7d

Socialist Project · Housing Spain s renters rise up against institutional neglect The violent eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid has ignited mass protests across Spain. 22 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-22

taz · Housing Housing market in Brandenburg: Vacancies are growing outside of the suburbs For a long time, the whole of Brandenburg seemed to be growing. Now the gap between the fat belt and the periphery is increasing. This has c 21 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-21

taz · Housing Exploratory results in Berlin: Is the socialization of apartments a good idea? The Left, the Greens and the SPD want to socialize 160,000 apartments. This is controversial: politically, legally, financially. A pro and c 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

Jacobin · Housing Socialize All Housing People are right to want control over their homes and their futures. Socialized housing, not private ownership, can make that promise a real 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

nd · Housing Living | Housing shortage here, vacancy there There is a lack of affordable housing in the Berlin area. But further away from the capital there is hardly any way around demolition. 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

nd · Housing Marzahn-Hellersdorf | Biesdorf: Fast housing construction or CDU backroom politics? In Marzahn-Hellersdorf there is a dispute over a housing project in Biesdorf. A special session of the district parliament is scheduled for 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

taz · Housing 55 arrests in Portugal: Police clear protest camp against housing shortage in Lisbon In the Portuguese capital Lisbon, people demonstrated against high rents and set up a protest camp. Now the police took action against it. m 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

Perspektive Online · Housing Europe-wide protests against cuts, high rents and rising prices Student protests in France turned into a mass movement with 800,000 participants. Resistance to rising living costs is also growing in Spain 20 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-20

nd · Housing Red-Green-Red | Expropriation, AfD ban, highway stop: What red-green-red wants After four weeks, the Left, the Greens and the SPD agreed to coalition talks. They want state voting rights for foreigners, the Expo and muc 19 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-19

taz · Housing Agreement on expropriations: three winners for Berlin What the Left, the Greens and the SPD are planning in the capital gives hope: for a more social city and a change in politics that radiates 18 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-18

taz · Housing Students looking for accommodation: 2 euros for a 10-minute warm shower At the start of the semester, the pressure on the Hamburg housing market is high. Students report overpriced shared rooms and long journeys 18 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-18

Perspektive Online · Housing Rent prices, rent caps, socialization: Housing Summit 2026 At the housing summit on Thursday, various organizations and party representatives discussed high rental prices in Germany. While people arg 18 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-18

Autonomies · Housing The Encampment Movement against Evictions and Gentrification from the CrimethInc. collective, 15/10/2026 A Report from Madrid and Barcelona On September 23, 2026, Spanish authorities violently evicted 18 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-18

taz · Housing Agreement on expropriations in Berlin: From exploration to socialism? Beaming faces from the Berlin Left, the Greens and the SPD. The three parties will start coalition negotiations. What exactly they agreed to 17 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-17

labournet.de · Housing “You can’t live like this anymore”: There are also protests in Portugal against rising living costs and housing shortages Dossier "For years we have been exploited by rising real estate prices and the cost of living. We work ourselves to death and toil to get by 17 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-17

Symbolbild de.indymedia · Housing RM16 - Eviction notice lost – your conflict – all of our problems! from: anonymous on: October 16th, 2026 - 9:46 p.m. Topics: Antifa Repression Social Struggles Regions: Dresden Most of us have been living i 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

ZNetwork · Housing When the Bargain Breaks Dear Nizal, On 23 September, Spanish police evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for 71 year 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

taz · Housing Baby boomers are getting old: the end of the housing shortage? Millions of baby boomers will soon sell or inherit their apartments or houses. Will the “Silver Tsunami” solve the housing shortage? more... 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

Mother Jones · Housing Build, Baby, Build? California’s Hottest Races Are Battles About Housing. In late September, a Los Angeles Times poll of that city’s mayoral race showed the upstart candidate, LA city councilmember Nithya Raman, up 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

nd · Housing Rental misery | Housing construction: insight much too late The project of a federally owned housing association shows the helplessness of the federal government. A comment. 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

nd · Housing Rent peak | Socialization: Important contribution to affordable housing Tenants' and trade unions' associations are calling for stricter regulations on the rental market. The transfer of apartments into public ow 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

Tagesschau · Housing Federal housing association is scheduled to start in 2027 There is a severe housing shortage in Germany, and a federally owned housing association is supposed to remedy the situation. According to F 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

taz · Housing Ex-Mayor of Barcelona: The return of the rent fighter Ada Colau is to lead the left-wing Frente Amplio alliance in Spain's new elections. She is hitting a nerve with her fight for affordable hou 16 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-16

CrimethInc. · Housing The Encampment Movement against Evictions and Gentrification : A Report from Madrid and Barcelona Our correspondents in Madrid and Barcelona offer a view from within the movement against evictions and gentrification. 15 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-15

taz · Housing Housing summit by the Tenants' Association and DGB: Could rent regulation help the economy? Rent policy and socialization will be discussed at the housing summit. Economist Sebastian Dullien is for it, the Justice Minister is agains 15 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-15

Truthout · Housing Eviction of 87-Year-Old Sparks Protest Encampment Over Spain’s Housing Crisis “We want to change the whole model of housing in Spain,” says Sabina Carrau of the Madrid Tenants’ Union. 15 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-15

taz · Housing Apartment rents: getting more and more expensive, faster and faster The Kiel Institute is reporting the strongest increase in rents since the beginning of 2025 for the third quarter of the current year. Exist 15 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-15

World Socialist Web Site · Housing Morenoite CRT seeks to subordinate housing protests to Spain’s union bureaucracies The eruption of mass protests across Spain against the housing crisis, following the eviction and subsequent death of 87-year-old Maricarmen 15 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-15

taz · Housing Survey on rents: 89 percent support tougher penalties against rent usury According to a survey, one in three people in large cities think their own rent is too high. A majority of respondents support stronger regu 14 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-14

nd · Housing Homelessness | Hugo House Berlin: Residents evicted for the second time In September, Belt Street in Friedrichshain was cleared. Now the residents also have to vacate the tent city opposite. They don't know where 14 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-14

ZNetwork · Housing Infrastructure, Finance, and the Sale of the Future Imagine yourself as a housing developer – an entrepreneur, a big-time player, a real deal-maker. Your people devise a plan to borrow money, 13 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-13

ZNetwork · Housing Fifteen Years Later Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has b 13 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-13

Morning Star · Housing Ex-director in charge of Grenfell cuts no longer at senior council role following backlash THE housing director who oversaw cost-cutting at Grenfell Tower has left a senior council housing role following backlash from bereaved fami 12 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-12

nd · Housing State politics | Because of expropriations: explorations in Berlin on the brink This week the Left, the Greens and the SPD wanted to come to an agreement on a coalition. But central controversial issues remain unresolved 12 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-12

taz · Housing Housing policy: Pot seeks rent cap In Berlin, the Left wants to expropriate large housing companies. This also requires support from society. Where are the protests? more... 12 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-12

nd · Housing Housing crisis | Pantisano: No forced evictions into homelessness The case of the Spanish pensioner who had to leave her home after 70 years moved many people. In Germany, the Left leader is now calling for 12 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-12

World Socialist Web Site · Housing Which way forward for the mass protests for housing and a general strike in Spain? The question is how this movement can fight for its aims, and avoid being dissipated or controlled by Spain's capitalist PSOE-Sumar governme 12 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-12

nd · Housing Violence support | Too little protection for homeless women On Homeless Day, organizations are calling for the needs of homeless women to be given greater consideration when providing assistance again 10 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-10

jungle.world · Housing Controversial socialization 2026/41 | Domestic | The CDU is agitating against the expropriation plans of the Berlin Left Party The CDU is agitating excitedly against th 10 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-10

ZNetwork · Housing Eyewitness in Madrid: the Masses Demand a General Strike Enormous protests in the Spanish state are calling for affordable housing and tenants’ rights — as a result, there will be new elections and 9 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-09

Green Left (Australia) · Housing Stop the closure of Aboriginal community-controlled YiSSA housing Residents and the wider community are organising to stop the Northern Territory government’s decision to close a crucial low-cost, short-sta 9 Oct 2026 · 2026-10-09