In Geneva, tenants in two neighborhoods, Servette and Augustins, are organizing against the owners of their buildings — pension funds, insurance companies, and investment funds — who have announced the termination of leases with the aim of demolishing and then rebuilding these buildings. Sophie Realini and Maxime Felder, from EPFL’s Urban Sociology Laboratory, publish a reflection on this subject in Le Courrier.Read the article here.
Tenants are mobilizing
In Geneva, tenants in two neighborhoods, Servette and Augustins, are organizing against the owners of their buildings — pension funds, insurance companies, and investment funds — who have announced the termination of leases with the aim of demolishing and then rebuilding these buildings. Sophie Realini and Maxime Felder, from EPFL’s Urban Sociology Laboratory, publish a reflection on this subject in Le Courrier.
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