IMU Urban and Regional Planning faculty member Dr. Ayşegül CAN completed her research for the housing and rent crisis project in Berlin, for which she was granted three months of funding for research by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Foundation and the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research.
CAN studied how the housing and rent crisis affected Berlin, Germany, after the fall of the Berlin Wall after 1990 while she was there from May 15 to August 15, 2022.
Within the scope of the research, she examined how urban non-governmental organizations, shelters and organizations for the right to the city developed after the housing crisis. The results showed that local governments took an active role in the protection of the right to the city, with decentralization policies being superior.