Tens of thousands of people in Germany are being forced to vacate their homes. The left sees a challenge to the federal government.
Rent arrears led to evictions from tens of thousands of apartments last year. More than 27,319 apartments were forcibly evicted in 2022, according to a response from the federal government to a request from the Left in the Bundestag, which is available to the German Press Agency. Rent arrears are the most common cause of losing your home.
The Left’s rental and housing expert, Caren Lay, demanded that notices of termination for back payments of rent arrears should be lifted and that “evictions into homelessness” should be banned. “If the federal government doesn’t act, even more people will lose their apartments and their homes because rents will be extremely raised,” said Lay. “Every eviction is one too many.”
According to the information, most of the evictions were carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia (8,690), Bavaria (2,579), Lower Saxony (2,288) and Saxony (2,265). Measured by the number of residents, Brandenburg (1085), Bremen (413), Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg (902) recorded the most evictions.
Lay estimates that the total number of evictions will be around 30,000 in 2022. The reason is that the federal government has not provided information for all states. If you add missing data for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, as listed in the German court bailiff newspaper, around 2,000 apartments are added to the total, as the Left emphasizes. In the previous year, more than 29,000 apartments in Germany were forcibly evicted.
Source: Stern
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