Far-left party wins Berlin election on housing nationalization pledge
Germany's Left Party secured victory in Berlin elections while far-right AfD gained ground in eastern state races.
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What to know
- Left Party won Berlin elections on a nationalization-of-housing platform, addressing acute affordability challenges in the capital.
- The election reflects regional divergence: while left parties gained in Berlin, the far-right AfD advanced in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- The housing plank divides opinion: some see state intervention as necessary leverage against market failure, while others debate whether nationalization or regulatory reform is the answer.
Housing nationalization may be necessary as the only lever ordinary people have to force change against both market and state failures.
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“Well that might just be what is needed. I don't have a whole lot of faith in government programs to do what is needed... I have even less faith in corporations.”
broguequery · Reddit ↗
Both far-left and far-right politics represent problems; the real issue is regulatory overkill that made affordable housing typologies illegal.
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“Flophpouses, tenements, residential hotels, SRO's and other such housing typologies existed all throughout the 19th and 20th century. They were all made illegal because busybodies and nanny staters implemented laws that made them…”
Brawl97 · Reddit ↗
Left Party (Die Linke) Winner of Berlin electionAlternative for Germany (AfD) Far-right party
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Far-right AfD gains in eastern state elections — Concurrently, the far-right Alternative for Germany party made electoral gains in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, reflecting regional political fragmentation.
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Left Party wins Berlin election on housing nationalization pledge — Germany's Left Party secured victory in Berlin elections with a central campaign promise to nationalize housing as a response to the city's housing affordability crisis.
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Elif Eralp is poised to become Berlin's next mayor after The Left came top in Sunday's election in the German capital, capping a remarkable rise for the 45-year-old to lead one of the world's most vibrant cities. Projections show The Left far ahead on 25% of the vote in Sunday's election, paving the way for a three-party coalition with the…
- Sep 22
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It could be handled differently, more acceptable to right-voters, a lot cheaper to implement (actually brings more money in taxes) and with the same outcomes: tax housing progressively.It works like this: First house owned by someone - normal tax, second house - 10x tax, 3rd house - 20x tax. Applied to legal persons too, but not to commercial…
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More on Die Linke's Berlin victory. "GERMANY’S Left party (DL) has scored a stunning victory in Berlin, winning a state election for the first time on a campaign to nationalise housing owned by corporate landlords and cap rents." Die Linke score stunning election victory in Berlin | Morning Star https:// morningstaronline.co.uk/articl…
- Sep 21
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 Berlin just handed Die Linke a historic first-place finish. 25.7%, more than double their last result. Party leader Elif Eralp says New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win was a real example for her campaign. Same playbook: housing costs, rents, affordability. She’s now in
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Berlin Die Linke leader Elif Eralp says New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s success was an important example for her party’s campaign, following Die Linke’s first-place finish with 25.7% in Berlin’s state election.
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Report: "How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, Win in Berlin". “The success of a democratic socialist in NY, the heartland of capitalism, is a huge achievement," said Die Linke. The party adopted Mamdani's "massive ground game", "lashings of social media flare" & "keep it simple & keep it real" motto. Die Linke's campaign was…
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The remark on my end was unnecessary and a bad point, I agree, I should have phrased that differently. However, you cannot compare the voting landscape of Germany to the US though. German politics, especially the left, is separated into distinct parties and each party also has blocks that tend to lean more towards their political extreme or more…
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If Die Linke looks radical left from where you stand, you're already with the radical right. They're far left but nowhere near radical. Not like the AfD is radical right, encouraging their followers to kill people disagreeing with them.
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Replace the word 'radical' with 'progressive'. You'll sound less Murdoch.
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Die Linke is not radical. The AfD is nazi radical right. Got it?
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„Radical” just meaning „for the people”. Sooo „radical”. 🥰
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To add further context: in 2021, Berlin residents voted in a Volksentscheid on whether the government should compulsorily purchase back housing stock from large private real-estate companies. The proposal received 58% support, but the CDU/SPD coalition in office at the time just ignored it. This now at least partially reflects in the votes.
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I know. I live in germany. I know the standpoint of the party's we have. This party has since its founding an anti war, anti weapons standpoint. That is also the flaw many people avoid voting for them. Yet they are a stable in defending democracy in germany against the far right. Probably more than any other party. Just because they have an anti…
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Ok: last thing I'm writing tonight and then I'm going to bed. First, There's a lot of (... In my opinion, ...)'s missing here. You list a myriad of statements that require sourcing or data to back up. Examples include: "The most .. a war." "... it's painfully .. our lifetimes." Second, imo, a state can exist due to a contented people. If the…
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This headline is alarmist ('far-left' sounds dangerous for some people). And 'nationalise housing' is just wrong.This party is not far-left, it is just left. But that is not the point. My point is that a headline about anti-left alarmism hit the HN front page. This is unusual; the HN crowd keep their discussions out of daily politics most of the…
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They do want to pay landlords, though below current (very high) rates. In San Francisco, NIMBYs secretly support laws like this. This basically guarantees that many builders will do the math and conclude that it doesn't make sense to build housing in San Francisco.New large condo buildings have to sell 30% of the units at below market rate. This…
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I used to live in South America (mid-tier city), living here in Berlin my will never understand how such intelligent people in general (no irony or sarcasm) never thought in a collective sense that if you have a market with a rigid supply in terms of availability (not occupied homes with no incentives for renting), it never made a serious planning…
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So those two things are bad. Whats good in your opinion? A free housing market a la Adam Smith? Where in the world is this working? Toronto? San Francisco? New York? London? Sydney? Explain to me how and why rent control (in a completely malfunctioning market) & a high perecentage of state owned housing are bad for us common people and gimme some…
- Sep 20
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This is the German far-left party Die Linke. 🇩🇪 The party just won the Berlin state election and is now the largest party in the German capital.
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Flophpouses, tenements, residential hotels, SRO's and other such housing typologies existed all throughout the 19th and 20th century. They were all made illegal because busybodies and nanny staters implemented laws that made them unfeasible. Height requirements, density requirements, floor area ratios, and more. The state bending to NIMBY…
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@dielinke/1173 04506328675259 Incredible result for the German Left party in Berlin. Votes are still being counted but it seems to echo what has happened in several large cities in Sweden last election: big jumps for the left based on grass-roots campaigns mobilizing those who would otherwise not vote.
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@dielinke/1173 04506328675259 Like Mayor Mamdani in New York City, like Siddiq Khan Mayor of London, The Left (die Link) has triumphed in Berlin. Elections today, still counting. Proportional Representation. The Left ran on affordability. Congratulations to the probable Green, SPD, Left government # link # deutcsh #…
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Elif Eralp, a 45-year-old human rights advocate, is serving as the mayoral candidate for the party known as Die Linke, or the Left, in Berlin. It could mark the first time a candidate from the party would become mayor since German reunification.
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Apparently # cdu won’t work with # linke because 40 years ago linke were in the ddr’s dictatorship coalition — with cdu. Let’s hope # greens get plenty of votes, and # spd too! # Berlin election: no clear frontrunner ahead of Sunday's vote Germany's capital Berlin is going to the polls in one of the most tightly fought state elections in its…