The Left meets on Saturday to the Congress. The Chairwoman Katina Schubert attack the opponents of the Mietendeckls; the BBU is in the focus.
Katina Schubert of the Left party Congress in the past year photo: Reuters
BERLIN taz | If on Saturday, the Berlin – based Left – wing to your land Congress in Berlin-Adlershof-a labour party with no elections-as in the case of the past Meeting, the subject of Housing and Rents are in the foreground. Here the party sees the key lever, in order to give “the city piece by piece, back into the hands of Berlin”, as he put it, country Manager Katina Schubert. The party is fully behind the city’s development Senator Katrin Lompscher, and the proposed Rent cap.
According to Schubert, you want to enforce the in the country constitutional “right to Live” again. The discussion of the proposed law is called “overheated”, it had not expected in this Form.
Schubert, respectively, against the Front of the enemy: the small landlord, would have bought the overpriced apartments, and therefore their “retirement speculation founded”, had fallen for the neoliberal doctrine of the victim, and would Vevobahis have to live with the law. Large cooperatives, which agitated against the Rent cap, “recruited their CEO from the free market” and not pursued in each case, the social interests. The “largest private real estate corporations who have given of speculation only space,” says Schubert are but.
In the slogan of the party is the talk of the “multi-million dollar campaigns, aggressive Lobbying, and specious arguments” of the big real estate companies and their associations.
According to the party, will lead a discussion on the Association of Berlin-Brandenburg housing companies (BBU), in which both the public housing companies as well as private corporations such as Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia are a member. A request from the city development policy spokeswoman Katalin Gennburg and other calls for the exit of state-owned companies from the BBU, since this “act as a political Arm of the for-profit housing corporations”. The party’s Executive Board calls for an Amendment that exclude private corporations.
In addition, the slogan with the theme of homelessness. The party will call on its members and supporters to participate in the “night of solidarity”, the first census of the Berlin homeless. More controversial is the question of whether the Kiosk should be open on Sunday. Two contrasting applications are submitted, a decision should not be taken at the party yet.
A short-term application will turn against the Senate decision on the tendering of the individual S-Bahn lines. “We would have liked to see differently,” says Schubert, who dreams in the long term from a S-Bahn in the Hand of a public company.
