Housing buyback referendum campaign goes into second phase
The Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co initiative started collecting signatures today. The support of 170,000 Berliners is needed to force a referendum.
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Berlin - Shortly after midnight, the Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co campaign began collecting signatures for the second phase of its petition for a referendum on the expropriation of flats owned by large property companies.
Their aim is to collect signatures from at least 7 per cent of Berliners who are eligible to vote in Berlin state elections - German citizens registered in Berlin, basically. Just over 170,000 signatures are needed. The activists have four months - till 25 June - to get there. If enough signatures are collected, a referendum becomes possible, which could then take place 26 September this year, the date of both the Berlin state elections and the German national elections.