Overview
- The protest took place Saturday, September 5, starting and ending at the Rotes Rathaus and marching along Unter den Linden, Friedrichstraße and Leipziger Straße.
- Organisers had registered the march for 20,000 people and reported roughly 11,000 attendees while local reporting described a lower four‑digit turnout, leaving the scale contested.
- Speakers and banners pressed specific demands including socialisation of large property companies, a rent cap, abolition of owner‑use evictions and municipal, ecological new construction.
- Protesters criticised conditions in city‑owned housing, citing broken lifts, mould and asbestos, and urged that rent income be spent on maintenance rather than new‑build revenue generation.
- Organisers framed the demonstration as a pre‑election push to force housing onto party agendas and the turnout could shape campaign debate over rent regulation and municipal housing policies.