On Wednesday 30 March, the Red Women's Committee Bremen organised an lecture on the current situation in Wohlers Eichen. Wohlers Eichen is a housing complex with about 250 flats in the working class district of Oslebshausen in Bremen. The block has been under redevelopment for four years now and is one big construction site. There is rubble everywhere, cables and pipes are exposed, the basement rooms have no doors - the list of problems for the residents is long. Vonovia has already raised the rent twice since 2018, because they know well that the people in Wohlers Eichen don't have enough money to move away and are taking advantage of this situation without any hesitation. On top of that, the utility bills list a cleaning service that doesn't even exist, at least no one has ever seen it. The residents still have to pay for cleaning, even though they have been doing it themselves for years..

The presentation denounced all these problems. It was based on conversations with residents in Wohlers Eichen and some residents also came to the lecture and reported on the situation. At the end, many questions were asked and a lively discussion developed which led to the conclusion that the solution to the problem can only be to join forces, because alone one is powerless against housing companies like Vonivia and their harassment.