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0.1Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen’s cheerleading squad dancing in front of the Reichstag
1.1Berlin S-bahn driver giving his signature in support of DWE’s referendum
2.1Socialisation: Lawful, affordable, good. A pastiche of Ritter Sport advertisement created by Joanna Kusiak as part of the public art exhibition Die Balkone in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, 2021
2.2Bruno Taut’s Carl Legien Estate in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
2.3Jabberwock, a powerful fictional creature from Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky featured in his book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
2.4Wir bleiben Alle – ‘We Are All Staying Put’: An occupied tenement block at Brunnenstrasse 183; occupiers evicted by the police on 27 October 2009
3.1The spectres of expropriation in front of the Deutsche Wohnen Headquarters in Frankfurt, 18 June 2019
3.3Election evening games: Will it be possible to overthrow the rule of corporate landlords?
3.5DWE announces the second referendum in front of the Rotes Rathaus (Berlin City Hall), 23 September 2023
3.6‘We have to do everything ourselves’: The spectres of expropriation dancing in front of the Rotes Rathaus
3.8Poster for the 1926 referendum to expropriate the property of the former ruling houses
4.2Opening meeting of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn, 1 September 1948
4.4‘CDU fights for the Gemeinwirtschaft’; this 1947 poster shows that the Christian Democrats stood for a socialisation and solidarity economy
5.4Bruno Taut’s Horseshoe Estate in Berlin-Britz built by GEHAG
5.5‘Architecture of financialisation’: A housing project by Vonovia in Alt-Tempelhof, completed in 2021
5.7Organisational structure of the AöR, a democratic institution that would manage socialised housing
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