{"id":3286,"date":"2020-05-31T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptford.tv\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2020-05-31T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:20:00","slug":"evicted-by-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Evicted by Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anonymous Owners in Berlin \u00b7 Christoph Trautvetter \u00b7 #DNL19 #EvictedByGreed\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2k5hyg4kA-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Anonymous Owners in Berlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Real Estate Speculation in Barcelona - Manuel Gabarre de Sus \u00b7 #DNL19 \u00b7 #EvictedByGreed\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWKWe0A5iVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Real Estate Speculation in Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE: Anonymous &amp; Aggressive Investors with Christoph Trautvetter &amp; Manuel Gabarre de Sus \u00b7 #DNL19\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJSDGF6RIn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Anonymous &amp; Aggressive Investors: Who owns Berlin &amp; Barcelona?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Golden Sands: Money Laundering in  Dubai \u00b7 Karina Shedrofsky \u00b7 #DNL19 \u00b7 #EvictedByGreed\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHkauCUoOuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Golden Sands: Money Laundering in Dubai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foggy Properties: Money Laundering in London - Sam Leon \u00b7 #DNL19 \u00b7 #EvictedByGreed\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ScNZtK6ca5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Foggy Properties: Money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE: Foggy Properties &amp; Golden Sands with Sam Leon &amp; Karina Shedrofsky \u00b7 #DNL19 #EvictedByGreed\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djwPUi3dbo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Foggy Properties &amp; Golden Sands: Money Laundering in London &amp; Dubai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen &amp; Co! 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One of the loopholes real estate investors use is acquiring shares in a company that owns the apartments rather than the apartments themselves. Through this one loophole the city of Berlin loses around 100 millions \u20ac of real estate transfer tax according to estimates. But they also lose control over who finally owns the city. As a consequence of such process, the real estate market in our cities is disrupted while the everyday lives of local neighbourhoods are negatively affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As pointed out by our keynote speaker Christoph Trautvetter, \u201cBecause the regional real estate registers don&#8217;t contain any information on beneficial owners and there is no good and reliable tool to link legal and beneficial owners both the city and its tenants know very little about who owns their homes. As a new study to be presented at the conference shows &#8211; nearly half of the investors remain anonymous and no one can tell how much dirty money hides behind their anonymous investments\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since some years, investors from the international capital market have heavily entered into Berlin\u2019s residential and commercial property:<br><strong>Deutsche Wohnen owns 111.500 apartments in Berlin and Vonovia 41.943, via institutional investors such as BlackRock; Akelius, founded by a Swedish millionaire, owns 13.817 apartments having as shareholder a foundation in the Bahamas. Additionally, the Pears family owns 6.000 apartments and the investment fund Blackstone approx. 5.000; Carlyle, Optimum Evolution and Ph\u00f6nix own somewhere below 3.000<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosalux.de\/publikation\/id\/40502\/profitmaximierer-oder-verantwortungsvolle-vermieter\/\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are such investments an unstoppable wave or is it possible to reach better policy measures and greater transparency?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EVICTED BY GREED<\/strong> aims to raise awareness on the matter of real estate speculation, inviting experts to share data and investigations, as well as discuss best practices and concrete solutions that are possible in the context of tax avoidance of offshore companies in the real estate market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHousing is a human rights issue\u201d, stated Leilani Farha, Global Director at The Shift and Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, our keynote on May 30. Inviting policy makers, activists and human rights advocates we aim to imagine possible interventions, actions and countermeasures to the influence of global finance on real estate, as well as produce literacy about housing eviction and wealth asymmetries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncovering how ghostly shell companies and real estate speculation evict real people from their homes \u2013 and what to do about it. EVICTED BY GREED investigates how speculative finance drives the global and local housing crisis, and gathers experts &amp; activists from around the world to share and find counter-strategies. 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