BerlinElif Eralp pledges to expropriate more than 200,000 housing units.
A housing shortage and rising rents gave her Left Party its best Berlin result in September.
Vonovia, Germany’s largest landlord, calls the plan wrong and legally highly questionable.
Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic said expropriation would add no housing and undermine confidence in property ownership.
Nothing can begin until Eralp’s coalition takes the mayor’s office.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- frames the expropriation fight as a threat to German investment, arguing it would add no housing
Sources: Daily Maverick