On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living. In Jacobin.
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The comparison between Berlin and New York becomes most useful when it moves beyond campaign messaging to what each coalition can actually deliver on housing. Tracking whether their rent proposals survive institutional resistance would show if this is a shared governing model, not just a shared electoral strategy.