{"id":10647,"date":"2019-08-26T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chronik.blackblogs.org\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2019-08-26T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T22:00:35","slug":"vonovia-real-estate-group-vans-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronik.noblogs.org\/?p=10647","title":{"rendered":"Vonovia Real Estate Group Vans Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Berlin<\/strong>, august 2019<\/p>\n

At the beginning of August we attacked two Vonovia vans on the Martin-Wagner ring road, we smashed the windows, sprayed slogans on the exteriors and emptied the contents of a fire extinguisher inside them.
\nWe set another one of fire on the night of August 26th on Kiefholz street. We took care to insure that no other cars caught fire.<\/p>\n

Vonovia (formerly Deutsche Annington) is the largest real estate group in Germany with almost 400,000 apartments. In 2018 it made a profit of 1.07 billion euros (previous year: 920.8 million euros) and a turnover of 6.5 billion euros.
\nA dividend of 746 million euros is to be distributed to the shareholders in 2019. The largest single shareholder is Blackrock with 8 percent (Fast-CDU chief Friedrich Merz is chairman of the supervisory board and a lobbyist there). Incidentally, they are also the main shareholder of Deutsche Wohnen with 10 percent.
\nVonovia\u2019s monthly rent in Germany rose by 4.4 percent compared to the previous year to a current average of 6.52 \u20ac\/m\u00b2. For the year 2019 it is set to rise again by a similar amount.
\nVonovia doesn\u2019t make the majority of its profits via rental income, but through ridiculously expensive utiltiy bills.<\/p>\n

The trick here is that Vonovia invoices itself for maintenance and modernization via one of its 350 subsidiaries and then passes these invoices on to the tenants. The landlord alone \u2013 Vonovia \u2013 decides whether this maintenance is really necessary. Vonovia calls this rip-off strategy \u201cinsourcing of services for optimal process management and maximum cost control\u201d.<\/p>\n

And this is also where Vonovia cars come into play, white vans with large Vonovia lettering that can be seen in almost all German city centres. These are company cars that belong to the so-called \u201cproperty attendants\u201d, strictly speaking not Vonovia, but one of the aforementioned subsidiaries. The four largest are Deutsche TGS, Deutsche Multimedia Service GmbH, Vonovia Immobilienservice GmbH and Vonovia Wohnumfeld Service GmbH.<\/p>\n

The task of the so-called \u201cproperty managers\u201d who drive around in Vonovia cars is not, as some might think, to carry out necessary repairs on broken windows, for example. This would be in the interest of the tenants. However, repairs should not be charged to the tenants who are already paying for maintenance costs.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the largest part of the tasks of the \u201cproperty managers\u201d does not extend to repairs, or finding real defects, but to general controls, which alone serve to minimize the administrative effort, the risks of the landlord and the acquisition of information for business control \u2013 \u201coptimal process management and maximum cost control\u201d.
\nIn other words, instead of repairing broken water pipes, the \u201cproperty managers\u201d have the job of driving white Vonovia transporters from property to property and driving up ancillary costs by getting inspired to invent new \u201cmaintenance measures\u201d that can be invoiced to tenants. Tree and hydrant controls, for example. The costs of this \u201cproperty management\u201d are billed via the operating costs and thus charged directly to the tenants and clearly exceed the \u2013 far too low \u2013 wages of the employees who are \u201cproperty managers\u201d. Both tenants and employees are thus victims and exploited by Vonovia and its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n

Because moving to a new tenancy agreement in Berlin has become unaffordable for most tenants, too many of these scams have to be put up with.
\nAnd because of this systematic rip-off, Vonovia has raised its profit forecast for 2019 by a few hundred million.
\nThe shareholders will be pleased.<\/p>\n

Vonovia\u2019s \u201cinsourcing\u201d strategy sees profit maximization at all costs for tenants who are dependent on affordable housing. The basic needs of hundreds of thousands of people are being exploited to satisfy individual profit interests.<\/p>\n

We show solidarity with all those who fight against the city of the rich, by whatever means they consider necessary. This struggle cannot be seen in isolation from the existing capitalist conditions that produce the exorbitant rents in the first place.<\/p>\n

Keine Rendite mit der Betriebskostenabrechnung!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/strong>: Indymedia<\/a> (Tor), translation anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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