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← Zur aktuellen AusgabeWedding summer camps, housing vote stalled, builders eyeing two districts
Wedding Sommerferien
Six solid ways to keep kids busy this July.
Wedding's community magazine rounded up lidos, museums, youth centers, and adventure playgrounds now open for the school break, plus a local camp with a social edge [Quelle: Brunnenmagazin]. Most are cheap or free. The list saves the planning panic.
Worth bookmarking before the heat hits.
Volksentscheid steckt fest
Berlin voted to seize housing. Nothing has happened.
Two years after the 2021 referendum backing expropriation of corporate landlords, the city still has no implementation framework [Quelle: BR]. Legal obstacles, political hesitation, and competing reform priorities have frozen the process. The housing shortage has only deepened—Berlin needs roughly 100,000 new units, rents continue climbing, and the September election now centers entirely on housing anger.
Expect the vote to resurface as campaign fuel.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Bauprojekte
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg's pipeline is packed.
The district is tracking dozens of active construction and planning schemes, from residential conversions to infrastructure upgrades, consolidated in one overview [Quelle: Entwicklungsstadt]. Tempelhof-Schöneberg's project map is equally crowded. Both districts are racing to add supply in a city chasing 100,000 new flats.
Check the tracker if you live in either zone.
Bauprojekte Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg - Entwicklungsstadt3 hours ago ... Ein gelber Zug der Berliner U-Bahn steht an einem Bahnsteig in Berlin. Das. Verkehr. Vom: 5. Juli 2026.entwicklungsstadt.de
6 Tipps für die Sommerferien im Wedding - Brunnenmagazin14 hours ago ... Bauen & VerkehrHier geht es um Verkehrsplanung und Bauprojekte im Wedding und in Gesundbrunnen. ... Die vielleicht beste Erfindung für die Sommerferien in Berlin ...brunnenmagazin.de
Enteignen oder vergesellschaften für mehr Wohnraum – geht das?14 hours ago ... Sollte sich Berlin trotzdem für diesen Weg entscheiden, rechnet Burgi daher mit "sehr langwierigen juristischen Klärungen". Die betroffenen Wohnungskonzerne ...br.de