Zum Thema: About us The "NRW people’s initiative for safe homes an jobs" since 2006 has been organizing social protests against the plans of the liberal-conservative government of North-Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) to sell the country-owned housing company called LEG (over 100.000 housing units) and against the parallel plan to cancel country regulations regarding the improved protection of tenants against evictions. The initiative even campaigns against the continuation of the selling of public and social housing to international financial investors. >> Read more
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Our goals and targets Parallel to the decision of selling LEG, after the 2005 elections conservatives and liberals agreed to abolish the country regulation on legal protection of tenants after condo-conversion. According to national law a landlord can quit a rental contract if s/he has an interest to occupy the house by him/herself or her/his relatives. In connection with the mass-conversion of rental housing into owner-occupied condominiums, after privatisations the right to fire a tenant causes a specific mass problem for the security of tenure. >> Read more >> zur Rubrik | 
