• @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    8419 days ago

    According to anti-gentrification activists in Berlin, other strategies for keeping rents low include hanging washing out to dry from apartment windows and having foreign-looking names on doorbells.

    • @Benjaben@lemmy.world
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      1519 days ago

      Wait yeah, to echo other commenter is this a tongue-in-cheek comment on how that fairly normal stuff is being perceived as “negative” due to racism/classism, OR is this an actual technique being used because it legitimately tends to have such an effect?

      • @dontgooglefinderscult
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        1318 days ago

        Yes. The reason it works is racism and classism; and you can use that fact to affect change in the desired direction.

        It’s like when a group of black guys have a traditionally white white guy with them to make the cops not bother them as much.

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      819 days ago

      Serious question as a visitor to Berlin. Are there a large portion of people that do this on purpose for this express purpose? Is this actually a thing? I noticed quite a lot of graffiti.