{"id":6807,"date":"2017-05-14T22:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2017-07-07T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:08:40","slug":"germany-confiscating-homes-migrants-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/05\/14\/germany-confiscating-homes-migrants-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Confiscating Homes for Migrants to Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/05\/14\/germany-confiscating-homes-migrants-use\/germanys-exports-climbed-in-2016-to-a-record-trade-surplus\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6808\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6808\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hamburg-housing-crisis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hamburg-housing-crisis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hamburg-housing-crisis-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Authorities in Hamburg have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany Confiscating Homes for Migrants to Use<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10352\/germany-migrants-property-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | May 14, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage \u2014 one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015, when Merkel opened German borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, however, the city is expropriating residential property units owned by private citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/hamburg\/article210438879\/Bezirk-Mitte-fuehrt-erstmals-Zwangsvermietung-durch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confiscated<\/a> six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center. The units, which are owned by a private landlord, are in need of repair and have been vacant since 2012. A trustee appointed by the city is now renovating the properties and will rent them \u2014 against the will of the owner \u2014 to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/hamburg\/article210438879\/Bezirk-Mitte-fuehrt-erstmals-Zwangsvermietung-durch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.<\/p>\n<p>The expropriation is authorized by the Hamburg Housing Protection Act (<em>Hamburger Wohnraumschutzgesetz<\/em>), a 1982 law that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landesrecht-hamburg.de\/jportal\/portal\/page\/bshaprod.psml?showdoccase=1&amp;st=lr&amp;doc.id=jlr-WoPflGHArahmen&amp;doc.part=X&amp;doc.origin=bs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated<\/a> by the city\u2019s Socialist government in May 2013 to enable the city to seize any residential property unit that has been vacant for more than four months.<\/p>\n<p>The forced lease, the first of its kind in Germany, is said to be aimed at pressuring the owners of other vacant residences in the city to make them available for rent. Of the 700,000 rental units in Hamburg, somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 (less than one percent) are believed to be vacant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/hamburg\/article210438879\/Bezirk-Mitte-fuehrt-erstmals-Zwangsvermietung-durch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> an estimate by the Hamburg Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10352\/germany-migrants-property-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Hamburg have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[179,195],"class_list":["post-6807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-migration-crisis","tag-germany","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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