Berliners launch campaign to fight 'insane rents' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video04/06/2019April 6, 2019After years of rapidly rising rents, exasperated Berliners are beginning to fight back. They have started collecting signatures for a referendum on expropriating the apartments of the big players in one of Germany's hottest real estate markets.https://p.dw.com/p/3GP3SAdvertisement