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DOSSIER: REITS

Real Estate Investment Trusts

Throughout the world, Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) are playing a rapidly increasing role in organizing private financial investments in housing and cities. After a longer period of development in Northern America - with disastrous consequences on social housing – about 20 important countries have introduced national REITs during the recent years and another half dozen is planning to do the same within the coming year. REITs are one of the examples of the silent over-taking of the worlds' economic governance by the neo-liberal promoters and profiteers of financial globalism.

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EVENT: Wed, Jun 06 2007 02:30 PM, Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

Freedom of investment and habitat/housing: Global financial markets, privatisation, investments

with Sebastian Müller, Andrej Holm and Knut Unger (WG Habitat Forum Environment and Development, INURA, tenants' associations), R. M., (Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia - LOCOA/India), Vesna Tomse (urban.lab, Zurich), Wade Rathke (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN/USA), Alfredo Rodriguez, (SUR/Chile), Ana Sugranyes, (Habitat International Coalition - HIC General Secretary) and others...

     Wed, Jun 06 2007, 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM  Uhr
    Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen

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Habitat Netz Sun, Oct 15 2006

US-Bank sells 40.000 German housing units to French REIT

Two years after the sale of 48.000 ThyssenKrupp dwellings to a German-American financial consortium the troubled tenants have a new owner again: 45.500 former company flats will be transferred to “Foncière Développement Logements”, a French Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT, SIIC).

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HIC Thu, Sep 21 2006

RIGHTS NOT REITs

This article aims to give an overview on available information about the global role of REITs and it’s consequences. Based on the critical debates in Germany it tries to suggest arguments against copying the US-REITs-model. It raises questions about the needs and chances to make REITs a prominent issue in international housing rights – and anti-privatisation struggles.

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