People’s initiative for safe homes an jobs

The “people’s initiative for safe homes an jobs” is a country-wide formal mass petition, aiming to stop the selling of public housing companies in North-Rhine-Westphalia and to keep the given standards for legal protection of tenants against evictions. It is an initiative that is currently in action. So far, among many other referendum-styled movements against the privatisation of housing in Germany, it has had the largest geographic extension and a political impact. The initiative unites tenant”s organisations throughout the country and trade unions. The initiative organizes social protests against the plans of the liberal-conservative government of North-Rhine-Westphalia 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.