The disputed land in Poznań, where Osiedle Maltańskie is located, has been sold. The curia sold it to a developer, new apartments are to be built there. The current residents, who did not know that they were occupying the area illegally, are afraid for their future. The city declares help, but not everyone believes in these assurances.
https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2026-02-04/kosciol-sprzedal-osiedle-niemal-600-osob-musi-znalezc-nowy-dom/
Posted by Gamebyter
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Tbh every single land sale from the “Non Profit”/”Religious” organization which has obtained the land with some kind of discount due to it’s activity should be by default taxed by Normal Tax Rate + Discount % while being sold to commercial entity.
Who is the developer? Where from?
And the church pass the burden onto the people and the state, shrugging their shoulders and claiming God will provide. Bunch of grifters.
This is clear example that “so called primitive accumulation” (which is fundamental for creation of capitalism) is still happening to this day, that it is not something that happened once in early modern period. This is what David Harvey calls “accumulation by dispossession”.
First they get shit donated to them for 1PLN, then they make millions off of it. Then they send tax collectors around every year begging for money from people. Just Church Things(tm). I want free money too, getting tired of having to work for everything I own.
Who believes those owners in “we believed that it’s our property”?
If houses were not purchased by them nor donated and they do not own the property title then only someone related could think that.
“The current residents, who did not know that they were occupying the area illegally, are afraid for their future.”
My friend lives there 15 years ago. They new that their status is unregulated. Then they were warned years in advance. For all those years they paid extremely low rent. Yet, I would still be still sympathetic to their case, if not for a fact that this place was (still is, but to lesser degree, as many people have already moved out) a cancer factory. They burned everything that could be burn. There even were fliers about selling stolen railway sleepers to burn (covered in toxic substances).
Though, I still believe the church should offer them something better. That’s a good moment to show their virtue.
So, in 1931, a local Catholic parish rented the land so the poorest had a place to live; then it was taken over by the communists, and in the ’90s the city council lost a long court battle and had to give it up to an archbishop. The archdiocese waited 30 years to sell it.
The city should have bought the land from the Church and built communal housing.
The National Park land grab and now this fuckery
“the current residents, who did not know that they were occupying the area illegally”
BS, they knew very well, it was always well known that this area is disputed, and because of it rent was much cheaper there as everyone was warned the legal situation is not clear
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