A Punk Bar Takes on Billionaires
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Faced with the impending closure of their popular pub, the punks of the alternative Berlin scene must dive into the dubious world of offshore companies to find out the names of the mysterious real estate billionaires who want to kick them out.
This quest takes them all the way to London, where gentrification has already forced their fellow activists out of regular housing and into living on boats. But can a small group of punks take on powerful billionaires to save their beloved pub? And could they have helped start a new uprising that, if successful, could lead to the most radical housing reform in the Western world?
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The blind guy justs wants a bar to hang out in 😞.
James Vegan it begs the question why
@@mowler8042 well do you have a full bar setup and the ability to mix good drinks? and can you do it blindfolded?
that's why
@@ShwintyKat No I meant why was he asked to leave
James Vegan aw
@@mowler8042 Ahh
A lot of people in the UK are very xenophobic when it comes to disabilities, from what I've heard from friends, even to the point that people past 6 foot are considered "wrong." Private places like pubs definitely would kick a blind man out
But I could be wrong, as I said this is second hand info
The irony of this is that I saw this happening so much time since the '90s. Punks or people from squats are the first noticing something' s wrong but no one cares since it's to late to do something.
10/9/19....The tenants usually DON'T have the money or the know-how to get together & legally form a group of like-minded ppl & pool their $$$ & try to BUY up the property for their own group use.
Look at all the co-ops in NYC & other big cities.
John Lenon & Yoko lived in The Dakota when he was shot/killed.
Yoko & son still live there after all these yrs.
Ppl in/near large cities ALWAYS
have high rent/housing problems b/c everybody wants to live close to their work in these large metro places.
valentina campioni o wow
Thank you for making this video Vice and Syndikat. I'll write this in English, so everyone can get familiar with how big of a problem this is becoming in Berlin..
Currently in a similar situation where the building which we live in, has been bought for a company registered in the Netherlands. Being Dutch myself I could easily check they are registered on an address where many other real estate investment firms are registered. Last week we received a letter from the Local Office that they have applied to convert the building into a "single property" which would allow them to kick everyone out and convert the apartments into condos. And this got approved by local government, so much for renter rights?!
Basically my entire floor consists of elderly people who have lived here for most of their lives. As it stands these people (and ourselves) can and will be kicked out after the 5 year waiting period.
We've also have been in a serious legal battle about our contract (which we seem to have won for now) but all in all this stuff needs to be stopped. So many people I talk to have absolutely no idea what their rights are (this also includes native Berliners and Germans) and these videos really help. Awesome awesome job!
Really disgraceful that they would even think of kicking elderly people out of their homes.
@@MaximusXXX77 imagine living in your house for your entire life.. then one day you get an official letter saying "You need to leave because your house will become a luxury apartment. Here are a couple of lawyers you might want to contact. Good luck". That is quite literally what the letter said. Our groundskeepers lives by himself and takes care of the entire building/garden and has no pension due to illness. He will be out on the street and will lose everything he has. It is completely and utterly insane.
Do you own or rent? Because if you rent you literally have no right to stay once your lease expires. Move somewhere else where it's affordable for you to live, like everybody else does literally everywhere.
@@ArcadiyIvanov You have no idea how German rental laws work. By default (and by German law) your rental contract is unlimited, so my lease does not expire, just like for anyone else in our building. We have an unlimited contract, which even gets passed on through generations, so we have people whose families have been here for 2 or 3 generations. Buying properties is not the default here, and often not even an option for lower class people. It's not about me dude, I can move if I really have too, a lot of others do not have that option.
@@ArcadiyIvanov It’s also about treating people with dignity and not forcing them out of their homes just so the owner can earn more money.
Kinds just shows how monopolized the world has become. Gilded age here we come...
@@PennyMsElite Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
Also shows you what happens when countries prioritise migrants needs over their own citizens.
And what happens when you invite far too many into the country.
There is basically no social housing left in Europe, so people born and bred in Germany, UK etc can't even get housed.
@@JamieR1988 This has nothing to do with immigration, you could entirely eliminate all immigration and would still have the problem of a very concentrated few owning pretty much all the housing in the world.
Dumbass the world was same as it is , it just changed from royals to middle high class
@@JamieR1988 we immigrants wont be needed IF YO STUPID ASS WORKED 12 HRs A DAY
This battle is so important. Not just for Berlin but for all citys
Yes to supporting any kind of resistance against corporate gentrification. Fight the evil empire!
eww working class parasite!!
I think the forgotten part is that there are lots of families owning smaller building and becaus of the inheritance tax 19% over 400.000 euros. Well generally these are the kind of owner that ask for less rent but this is also why they can't afford those taxes and are then forced to sell to companies. Not a cool thing.
International solidarity ❤
why do they have to leave? because of capitalism, because of neofeudalism.
muh capitalism
Billionaires do not create jobs
Literally rent seeking behavior.
I hope this is a joke
Why don’t you go find a job from some poor guy, preferably a homeless guy. I wonder what kind of benefits he could provide.
billionaires are leeches on the working classes
They shouldn't exist, they're god modding
We live in an oligarchy..
We live in a Kleptocracy! When there's different rules and laws for the rich (such as not paying taxes like the Pears brothers) then the system itself has to be overthrown.
@@grizcuz So someone donating to charity as a household taking in $50,000 to get tax breaks shouldn't be possible then right? This is how the world works. It's unfair, if you don't like it, get educated in the things they are doing and do it as well.
@@logsfall That's not how the world works though, there's zero onus on this mythical person to donate to charity for one. Everybody donating to their favourite charity instead of contributing to an organised common tax system is a ridiculous concept. I don't want to scam the system, I want to pay my fair share towards necessities like teachers and garbage workers. Even if I did, 'normal' employees don't earn enough to con the tax man, it's the very wealthy that treat tax like a high stakes game that they try to wriggle out of. If it doesn't irk you that people with more money than they could ever need are paying less in tax than a person who earns next to nothing, then there's something wrong in the part of your brain that handles concepts like fairness.
Any updates at all on this vice? Its already almost the end of the year so this was done being films a long time ago
Uhm, have you heard about Google?
@Apeman Commeth are your parents siamese twins or what?
@Apeman Commeth Creatures like yourself are what makes Trump 2020 possible and plausible
aaron kiefer oooo
Got evicted just this moring, today. 700 cops had to fight the whole neighborhood, arrested nearly 50 people, turned the whole district into a fucking mini-G20...
when my parents bought our house the neighborhood was for workers, and our house was in a small patch of old villas there were used or businesses. Now there area by the nearest train station is getting rebuild, and its beautiful but its all condos that sell for millions, and the gentrification is sneaking up towards us. some of the houses around me sold for tens of millions dkk, and my local slaughter and greens shop just closed down to make room for more wine bars and hipster cafes. Im gonna make my parents let me inherit my house once they move out, so i can rent out some of the rooms to people who grew up here, and support the small businesses in the area.
So your going to dedicate your life and your family home to giving a couple people a room to rent? Weird purpose lmao. I'm sure your parents are going to be thrilled with that idea.
Amazing how many people have organized to protest, at least you have numbers by your side now, congratulations, love from Romania.
Now I curious enough to do some research on who these Pears Brothers are.
Same here. My city went from cool downtown punk dives, to multi billion condos almost over night.... It fucking sucks so bad in Austin now, ivbe moved 250 miles away from it after 38 years..
@@seananon4893 Its happening in literally every major city in the United States right now, but yeah I've definitely heard from other people too that Austin is particularly bad.
Every place that gets hyped as a cool place to live, gets shitloads of people moving in until it gets so expensive, the people that MADE it cool can’t live there. And another douche-nozzle neighborhood is born...
It's like that in smaller cities too. I'm from a small town in southern Oregon. The homeless population has drastically increased because ppl are moving in and landlords are jacking up the rent. The apartment I moved out of was 550.00 a month and in a bad part of town. after I moved out it went up to 950.00. for every rental available there are at least 60 ppl applying for the same spot it's crazy it wasn't like that before.
Robby Patrisio ..
i guarantee that you will find one word in common with your findings.. .
Illuminati. .
èrgo secret societies.
Berlin will be the political head quarters for the beast (Anti-christ).
keep an eye of who is settling themselves within that city.. you'll soon hear of more things happening.
The court hearing for the eviction is on 29. October 2019. Just in a few days.
domusbird o wow
How do u keep up on this story?
@@rolymaskedman7086 there is a webpage in German. Just Google it
Good i hope they evict them
Anyone know how it went?
"Can't you just find somewhere else " so that man is telling someone to move there home there business there standing in neighbourhood what a prick
made me nearly punch my laptop hearing him say that
I hope they win. Greedy corporate suits can't keep pulling this crap, it's unconscionable!
Its sad how Millionairs can just act like they want and think they controll everything. Being German myself and havin multiple connections to punk groups i know how important it is for those people to stay in those communities. This needs more attention and especialy a good solution. I wish there was a way to support those people there and help.
Kitsune I bet these punks support policies that lead to the cost of living going up & up & up..
You put these millionaires in power when you vote for globalist leftist.. they are run by the same people why buy out the properties worldwide in an open border economy. its funny that the leftist globalist are hurt by the people they vote for isnt it.
"The Houses to the people who need them!
Die Häuser denen die sie brauchen!"
That housing and rent in general is still a viable business modell (meaning that it reaps profits and is supposed to generate growth) is the real scandal here.
There is nothing wrong with making profit off of your own property you f****** idiot.
@@ThemTwoGamerGuys Yes, but there is something wrong with buying up literally entire cities and throwing people out of their homes with borderline criminal business practices.
@@ThemTwoGamerGuys Well from an economics point of view there is actually. Economic rent is not efficient at all and investment properties add nothing to the economy while allowing the owner to profit. That's economically inefficient.
@@Patchesmcgee123 either way in most German cities it is not really worth buying for rent. In my town the average profit is under 3 percent a year and most of the houses on the marked are basically to expensive to buy for renting purposes. Here around the corner in an apartment which sells for 5.6 millions and theoretically could generate a rent of max 3750 euros per month. Not talking about who could pay it but it is not even worth investing in it is not just to park some money, because the credit rate would be a multiple of the rent.
@@domusbird And that's the way it should be! The whole point of maximising economic efficiency is that profit is the result of adding something relative in productivity to the economy and simply leasing an apartment just doesn't add much at all. If you want to maximise investments, invest in companies which actually produce goods and services, that's what capital is meant to do, not just buying up stuff to rent out and produce nothing.
Mao got it right about landlords.
A very powerful story. When you have been renting a place for 33 years you should have certain rights.
MaximusXXX77 lol should’ve bought a house instead
My grandpa own a few houses and the tenants have all lived in there for 20 years some 35 years .now that my grandpa passed away, it's time to split the land/property between all of my family members.it's very hard to evict people who lived in there homes for 30years..but what solution is there?.. the people my granpa rented his property to are old and now there kids and there kids kids are living on the property...its a mess
moey nolala ew sounds like a cesspool of people who couldn’t get out of their own way.
Why should you have rights? It's still someone else's property. Renting something from someone means the owner takes full responsibility for it. But oh no, instead of taking on responsibility, we'd rather sit with an entitlement attitude instead.
@@wagondragon Yeah, but sometimes populations happiness/rights should be valued higher then the feelings/rights of one.
This is happening in every major city it is absolutely devastating
1:55 1st of January 2019? So this video is almost a years old news just now released? I see a error.
I even rewatched that part to make sure I didn't hear it wrong...
11:00 6th of April 2019 like most good news networks they wait for the story to develop
@@lightarmanov6266 I think you mean "good Historians"...
Yes, it means they do not want to, and have still not left the premises yet.
Keep fighting Berlin! This is also a major problem in Copenhagen and there is not enough being done about it. Hopefully this can inspire movements around Europe.
The problem is rent and housing control. If the government deregulated what you can and can’t rent prices would go down. The government should not set standards for a property that can be rented and its prices. If someone wanted to rent and empty plot of land why can’t they. The same applies for where business can go. I am sure that there’s a place that this bar could go but the government says they can’t because it doesn’t look nice. Policies that control rent/business are a far cry from socialism/communism but they are a step in that direction. Which is shocking for Germany a nation that was split in half by a socialist government one side was good the other struggled people starved.
exactly , yet these folks want more gov
This problem is only getting bigger and we need to do something about it NOW!
Destroy single family housing and build more high density housing.
This happened in Ireland, only it was a traditional irish music bar, and they were going to close it to turn it into a hotel and people came out and said no way. So it remained opened however other venues have not been so lucky.
Es ist eigentlich eine unglaubliche Sauerei, dass es nicht möglich ist mit seinem wirklichen Vermieter von Angrsicht zu Angesicht zu reden. Vielen Dank, dass ihr kämpft! Berlin hatte mal die schönsten Kieze der Welt!
Na ja. Ich war in Berlin, fand es überhaupt nicht schön: Müll auf der Straße, Kaputte Bordsteine, kaputte Gehwege, schlechte Straßen, heruntergekommene Gebäude. Überhaupt nicht schön. Es gibt viel schönere Städte: Budapest, Prag, Hamburg oder Amsterdam um nur einige (mir bekannte Städte) zu nennen. Aber ja, viele Immobilienriesen handeln sehr unsozial und manchmal sogar illegitim (auch wenn nicht illegal). Ausserdem sind die Mieten in und um Berlin nicht all so stark gestiegen. Selbst in Kleinstädten wie Schweinfurt in Bayern sind die Mieten prozentual stärker gestiegen. In Berlin sind die Menschen teilweise aber auch selbst schuld. In Berlin gibt es noch so viele unbebaute Flächen wie Tempelhof. Würde man da eine sorgsame Randbebauung zu lassen hätte man tausende neuer Wohnungen.
33 years they could have bought the property in that time
It isn't for sale.
@@JonathanHilierChannel Did the Pears brothers buy the property more than 33 years before? The point is they could have bought a property somewhere close to where they live or even that property at some time.
The billionaires won't stop until they're on the pyre.
I just laughed at the sign, all they have to do is make a call and you’re arrested for trespassing. Unfortunately these people with land and old money are modern day royalty and the lawmakers are all paid
@st prch You're not helping. There's no reason the world should cater to psychopaths who eat breathe and sleep work and are all so rich that the rest of the working people become poorer as a result. It's important to work hard, nobody is disputing that, but you can't honestly believe this system works. If you're well off now, you'd be wealthy if the wealth was better distributed. If poor, you wouldn't be struggling so much. There's no denying a tiny fraction of the population owns most of the wealth. I don't care how hard anyone works, they aren't worth that much, and they aren't better than the masses.
“for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work”
- K.M
If ppl wonder why the property got skyrocketed, the answer is these greedy private investors who dont know what community is
Imagine having to pay to live in someone else’s house....
Ajaws2414 Imagine someone moving into your house and refusing to cover the bills.
FaithwalkerTodd people being mad at landlords have no idea how owning property or taking care of bills works
@@Ajaws thats a pretty ignorant and almost wholey incorrect statement. If you truly believe what you said please ignore my comment and do not reply as there will be nothing you or I will find common ground on and it will be a massive waste of time. However if you believe that there are at least some exceptions to what you said please feel free to engage with me as I would really be interested in finding out why you feel the way you do and what the thought process behind such an apparently black and white comment would be.
@@Ajaws get a job.
@@thegenerousdegenerate9395 way to poison the well.
Things like this are happening everywhere in the world, in Lisbon the old downtown is becoming more and more expenssive for ordinary people.
Thanks to Vice vor this important Documentary!!! 💪😊
Jealousy ? ...
CLASS WAR!! Why cant US Citizens do this?
Left ??
Watching this after receiving a letter from my landlord giving me 3 months to leave my apartment. Even tho i never missed rent. Sux
Well first off...that's not legal and would never happen if you are in a lease. If you aren't in a lease, then that's on you. And is literally in the fine print you agreed to and most likely signed. If no paperwork was involved, then yes your not in a lease and should have known this can happen anytime. They only have to give u 30 days to be out legally. Sign a lease next time 👌
@@joey19xx73 i signed a contract. Then i was told the contract wouldn't be renewed and id have 3 months to leave. I find it funny u say thats not legal yet have no clue as to where I live much less what the laws are like where I live
Edit: btw my contract doesn't have "fine print"
It sure would suck if that place happened to burn down a few months after you moved out. I’d be heartbroken
@@jaimedelgado7529 well that's a little different then. Your not being kicked out...your lease just is up, they have every right to do that but I agree that would suck. And fine print is a figure of speech referring to the many details listed in those contracts that alot of people overlook lol. I don't literally mean small writing at the bottom. I live in a complex in Nebraska that just got bought by some company in July...and they are remodeling any empty units from top to bottom. From carpet and paint to brand new countertops, fridges, etc. And then obviously Jacking up the rent. These apartments are very old, and now the company refers to them as "flats" on their website.😑. I signed a 1 year lease 5 years ago. Been month to month ever since. So dw I'm sure I'll be getting my notice sometime aswell. Ik they wanna get the other units updated while they got the guys on this job. But I'm literally seeing it first hand in Nebraska.
@@funkehouse it sure would be a shame................. 😈
Syndicate was forcibly closed Today.
So yeah! That sucks.
It’s happening everywhere, before you know it, it’s going to be too late, form a group, buy property, and preserve it
LONG LIVE THE SYNDKAT!!!!
Keep fighting for what's right...
Don't let them take your homes,,, there times is up...
The people are behind you keep going...
And next time I'm over I'll look for the pub son...👊👊👊👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🍺🍺🍺💃💃💃📢📢📢🚬🚬🚬🖕🖕🖕🏅🏅🏅
Ich unterstütze das movement.
This needs to be shared, this is a growing epidemic worldwide, Government's need to stop serving banks and property developers , bent on destroying local cultures, heritage and communities! #THENEWECONOMY
It's almost like entrepreneurs don't share syndicalist values! Whoa.
If I had the money I would buy the property from Pears Brothers and turn it into a mailbox for shell companies.
So... who are they? Some additional info would be helpful..
10/9/19....So WHAT IS WRONG with this family/3 brothers saving their $$$ & buying property thru the yrs---in various places---& renting them out so the tenants
have leases & pay rent monthly as the property increases in value over the years????
WHO do you think owns apt buildings & huge skyscrapers?
Ppl who put their $$$ into real estate & let the real estate values increase thru the yrs as the tenants pay monthly rent.
Even poor immigrants---like Chinese & Vietnamese & Mexicans
--- have come to the USA & put their LITTLE 💰 MONEY into a laundry or a restaurant or a lawn business as well as a small place/
property where they run these little businesses. Over the yrs they put their "small profits"/money into these businesses & property & slowly expand.
It's called HARD WORK + GOOD WORK ETHICS + USING MONEY TO SAVE FOR THE FUTURE!
MONEY into
Keep fighting punks keep fighting the best fight for your right... I'm Punk myself I support you guys we are different and the people don't like it you must keep fighting...
don't forget the hard drugs to aid you in your revolution.
Being punk has nothing to do with this. I think the topic went over your head. They are fighting for housing reform, not the right to be "punk" lmao.
This is Vice News... Simply amazing report!!!
Same problem with Vonovia, 370.000 units, the company funds are coming from UK.
This is an legal mafia, for 3 rooms apartment (75 m2) I pay 1200 E per month, in a town of 50.000 people.
I hope Germany will stop those company who just raise the rent every 2 years and put at least a hold on them.
How do they find enough renters/buyers at that price to make it work?
@@_robustus_ Easy, people are desperate to find a place, the airport is near by (25km) and any newcomers will accept the rent till they can find a 'better' place, but he/she will be stuck between job/rent/sleep.. Can take years to happend.
"The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by his grandfather Bernard Pears (who changed his name from Schleicher in 1939)"
"Schleicher Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a furtive or stealthy person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German slichen, German schleichen ‘to creep silently’."
Why don’t you come out and say that you hate Jewish people?
@@revjim77 lol
There is a lack of housing where I live that is bad enough that landlords seem to be raising prices and new units are consumed by businesses needing to house their workers. Meaning normal folk have to squabble for small overpriced places. What’s worse is that a new study shows that it’s more expensive to move from here than it is to move here. Meaning for those that are the working poor or below, they’re trapped.
Ich vermisse Syndikat so sehr! Aller-Eck auch.
Bastille Day 2020. Coming to the pissed off masses near you.
good for them, keep hope alive 💪💙
Awesome!
We live in a society....
Thumbed down by 181 billionaires.
Wtf 1:29 KEEP THE VAR UP
While going public obviously brought attention to a larger problem of corporations owning large portions of the living space, I wonder why there was no mention of the legal route to deal with these kind of situations. Renters have extensive protected rights in Germany especially in cases like this pub with a history of 33 years. If I was in their shoes, I'd collect money and hire a lawyer.
Only 2 ways to fight against foreign criminal/ corporate buyers. Write a laws that specifically says "Only citizens of (your county's name) is legally allowed to buy a home/property in your country." & "Rent control" (if landlords don't like it fuck off & sell your property chaply to some who dosen't mind)
Where can I sign the petition?
Good point here.. Foreign investors should be limited from investing in real property (land/buildings) since the rent income is non-taxable.
WildDisease well depends where u live. In the USA rent is taxed as income as in Germany. What this company did is they reduced their overall tax burden by splitting their properties among many small firms instead of one monster one
Swapping a company landlord for a government landlord.
So let's ged rid of landlords altogether.
Bring them under communal control and distribute them based on need.
Nobody ever EARNED a billion dollars
Jamie Morgan So Bill Gates by creating Microsoft and making computing possible for the entire earth did not earn $1 billion? Maybe had he been a farmer he could’ve done more work for the world
@@FaithwalkerTodd you're damn right he didn't earn a billion dollars. tell me that at any point during his life we worked harder than a mechanic or a farmer or a bin man, and you'd be wrong
Jamie Morgan It’s not a matter of how hard a person works. If it was all about muscle strength elephants would be the richest people. It’s all about brains. It takes the brains to create the business that gives the jobs to the boneheaded muscleman. The value of ideas is by far more powerful than the value of labor.
Thanks to you and everybody else who purchased their products, idiot
Jamie Morgan lol he worked SMARTER than you, which means he didn’t earn it? Lol obviously whatever job you have is going to earn nowhere near what he makes.
He’s got schools, offices, and corporations buying his products with another MILLION more people buying too.
Those numbers all add up. Can you rack up those numbers? Under your OWN creation?
Obviously you don’t, because you would understand that he worked to get there just like you...difference is he decided to make money off of people like you
i say... just my opinion on the matter... we should eat the rich.
I eat the poor
Instead of renting why not just start a campaign to buy the deed. Just go for the source y'know.
It’s not quite as simple as just buying the property since they can’t buy if the developers won’t sell. The way most of these situations go down is that people have one landlord that they pay rent to to operate a business out of. Property prices go up, multimillion dollar property companies come in and buy out the old landlord either because they’ve gotten an offer too good to refuse or they can’t afford to own the building(higher property taxes, bills, etc). New landlord wants to make money off of the investment they just made so they’re going to either raise rent(which old tenants usually can’t afford), repurpose the building, or tear it down and turn it into condos or luxury apartments. The development company only gives a fuck about making money, so they’re really not inclined to sell unless they are offered an amount of money that is too good for them to refuse(hint a small pub can’t afford it). Even if they could afford to buy their specific unit, chances are it’s not even available to be bought since these development companies are mostly concerned with owning property under the assumption that 10 years down the line it’s going to be worth double or triple it’s value. It also looks like it’s part of a larger complex, so them being there really makes things difficult for the company, if they plan on tearing it down they can’t do that if one tiny section of the building is owned by someone else, so the pub would essentially need to buy the entire complex, which once again they can’t afford even if it were for sale.
Well, that's a happy ending. I bet Pears didn't have legal justification to evict the renters, so their request was unenforceable. Good job, Syndikat.
This is why only natives can really own property by name in the Philippines. SMART!
Where do I sign?
Need a follow-up on this
Waste of time talking to them, go self sufficient and don’t give them another dime.
the old vice is back!
Vice never went anywhere, it just publishes a wide variety of content.
Good judgment of sentiments
7:09 Germans came to England visited locals on the boat and the all drunk polish beer :) Cheers.
Abolish the housing market
Can't really get board. This is why ownership is key. When you rent, you have to expect that you're at the mercy of someone else. They should have pitched in to buy the place. Need an update on this Vice.
I absolutely agree I think there should get together and buy the spaces. Then nobody kicks them out.
u dont get it , its not for sale. The property isnt lucrative enough to deal with escalating property taxes , thats why they will be evicted
@@sirjohnahayfalcon what I was referring to is that nobody should count on renting forever and I am sure there were several opportunities to buy the location.
The uniting aspect of this between the two groups gave such a ray of hope
Any updates??
So... What happened in the end? Very curious!
Holy shit, you should check out Dublin
YES
You had 33 years to save up and buy the property.
sad story... and this happens all over Europe...
Mit seiner RayBan da am mucken haha
The planet has room for billions but not billionaires.
Revolutionspotential
This is way inspiring, through do diligence they were able to stifle corporate monopolies!!
Iron Mountain oo
Badass. Dublin has a very similar problem. Rising rents, making it unlivable. Cultural and community spaces being shut down.
Do a story here Vice! The whole thing is rotten.
Duuude they really should. I live in Dublin and he rents are ridiculous. Especially for what you get.
It's called capitalism.
wolfsmaul-GER Yes, you need communism. That way you can be a slave and be murdered just like all the other communists who thought they were getting a free meal. Man, talk about stupid people who can’t learn from history. Keep repeating it, maybe you’ll figure it out eventually.
@wolfsmaul-GER true lets genocide millions of ppl who disagree with communism like every communist state did then we starve the rest to death so those who are left wont say shit when things go wrong.communism yay
@@FaithwalkerTodd they are germans some still wants communism some still want national socialism ...i highly doubt the iq tests there are accurate cuz i never meet ppl more sheep than the germans
@@ojberrettaberretta5314 You're coming on the list.
@@HorstEwald on your to kill list?lmao great stand in line your like number 500 who wants to get rid of me
Yo imagine if they took any of the profits they made off of their "popular" bar in the last 33 years and actually bought some property instead of renting....for 3 decades......
Sure, assuming that the landlord is willing to sell and you can secure the $$$ for a loan (German banks are conservative). It's not as easy like in America where you show up with a good credit score and get approved.
you think a small punk band can make enough money to buy ? have you thought that maybe they keep the drink prices down because they are nice people.
Not everything is about money. They love that bar, that's their life. That's how they enjoy this world. Just owning multiple properties soullessly is not the life they want to live
@@mannyverse6158 And they don't have to live that life. They only need to own ONE property and this issue wouldn't exist. If they're actually serious about continuing their bar they need to focus on the business but if it's purely about the culture, barely holding together a business that isn't earning income is hurting them more then them having to change locations.
@@jodecisanchez8785 What makes you think they're barely holding onto the business? They're paying their rent. The landlords want to remove them cause they want to put some huge walgreens or w/e there so they can make more money.
Your country, your property, they are trespassing!
If everyone wants to live in the city it gets more expensive. That's basic economics. If you force the prices down more and more people try to rent the same apartment and the chance of you getting one decreases. The only solution is to build new housing and renting it out, but no one wants to build new housing and rent it out because if you rent your apartment out, its not yours anymore. How should this work? People just have to understand, that renting a place doesn't mean owning a place!
33 years in business and it didn't cross their minds to make sure they own the place? This is just another example of how people think they are entitled to stuff.
That's now any of this works Bart. You can't just buy a whole building when you're a community space that has a rentral contract for that specific floor. These companies buy the whole building and then kick people out purely as investments. It has nothing to do with entitlement, it also happens to regular old grandpa and grandma living in a rented apartment they inherited. Berlin has history, look into it before you judge.
It's a risk they took when they rented in the first place. You know the property is not yours so you know the lease may some day be terminated. It is and remains the landlords property and it is his right (within the legal boundaries) to do with it whatever he pleases. why would anybody buy a building (to own it) if someone else is more entitled to it?
@@matthijsleenders5358 once again get familiar with German rental law. You can't just terminate a lease if someone has an unlimited rental contract, which is the law in Germany.
@@BoweFrankema I'm not familiar with german rental law. I was talking more in general about property rights.
That's what you get when your society doesnt care about owning it's own private property
Yeah, except it's the same story here in the UK and we're massive on owning property. I'd argue it's because we're massive on it, that it's so crippling to rent down South. Moved here for work and I can barely survive, due to rent and bills taking up 80-90% of my wage each month alone..
:( ... maybe they can have the ammo shed on Templehofer Feld :)
Best wishes for your fight.
honestly i know its probably inconvenient but those boat houses look like you could turn them into some pretty sick shit. and on top of that, something i don't get is that you could potentially create real estate ON the water. not that it's a great idea but im surprised no ones made some kind of boat apartment yet.
TLDW: Company: Why cant you find somewhere else to rent? Protestors: Because we dont want to
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