Stuttgart: Homeowner fires residents to accommodate refugees

Stuttgart - 115 residents of an apartment building in Stuttgart will be without a home in the coming month. The landlord gave them short notice at the end of August – in order to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in the house, as reported by the Stuttgarter Zeitung. The owner of the so-called boarding house in the district of Weilimdorf is the Dobler & Dr. Dobler. Currently, mainly migrants live there. Some of them get their money from the job center, others work for a parcel service.

Actually, their leases run “for an indefinite period”. The owners now seem to have found a loophole. Permanent living is prohibited in the apartment complex registered as an accommodation facility. Therefore, according to the landlord, no contracts of this kind should have been made.

City could accommodate Ukrainians at exorbitant prices
The "micro" apartments are 20 square meter small, partially furnished rooms. Costs: 570 euros warm. According to the newspaper, the average price per square meter in Stuttgart is actually 10.34 euros. If the current residents move out, 100 apartments would be free for Ukrainians. The city pays the monthly cost.

Criticism of the procedure comes from the chairman of the DMB tenants' association in Stuttgart, Rolf Gaßmann. The Stuttgart administration threatens to turn itself into an "assistant for unjustified dismissals" and thus potentially stirs up social envy and hatred of refugees. He also complained that it provided right-wing arguments for its agitation. The only option for the current residents is to sue for damages, for which many do not have the money. Otherwise the migrants have to clear the field for other migrants.

Source: Junge Freiheit