Frankfurt The organizing workshop for more than a half-dozen activists from Frankfurt, Munster, and Bremen was all about the basics in the morning and early afternoon. What is ACORN, and what do we do? How does the ACORN Model work and what are its elements? What is the structure of a doorknocking rap or home visit, …
Month: February 2019
Tenant Rights and Landlord Power in Germany
Frankfurt Spending some time walking around Rodelheim, a working-class neighborhood in Frankfurt, with tenant activists was an on the ground master’s course in tenant rights and landlord power in Germany. The area is not gentrified exactly, but it is easy to see new developments coming in that could tip the scales dramatically. Having just looked …
Blocking Renovictions: A New Anti-Gentrification Tool
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lost-Leaders-01-Extra-Ordinary-200013687.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFrankfurt New West, a low-and-moderate income family suburb abutting Vancouver, British Columbia, is becoming ground zero for new policies to prevent gentrification and displacement in Canada, and perhaps globally with the passage of its latest city bylaw. With housing prices averaging over $1 million in Vancouver every …