As\na homeless charity, we show solidarity with all those affected by evictions.\nEvictions only cause people to end up living in homelessness and they are also\na symptom of a society and politics that are profit-oriented and that do not\nact in the best interest of the population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\nhas been known for years that there is a massive shortage of affordable\napartments for low-income persons, recipients of social benefits, homeless\npersons, refugees, students and many other groups in Berlin. However, the rents\n-even those of public housing- are being consistently increased. This leads to\nmore and more apartments being excluded from social obligation. In the\nmeantime, there are apartments, even entire buildings, that stay empty because,\ndue to the rapid value increase, they are worth renting at a later point in\ntime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nspite of that, luxury apartments, hotels and offices are being built. This\naggravates the problem rather than mitigating it. The increasing rents cause\nthat always more people cannot afford their rents and have to be evicted. That\nis how more and more persons are driven into homelessness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Affordable\napartments have to finally be created. The rent price cap is a nice signal.\nHowever, the problem can only be solved long-term with the massive construction\nof social apartments and with an extensive expropriation of private housing\ncompanies. Only when apartments are not a commodity anymore, will the\nnecessities of poor and homeless people be taken into consideration. Moreover,\nevictions have to be stopped immediately. Every person that is forced out of\nhis\/her apartment and forced to live on the street is one too many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\nclaim: every person deserves a good and self-determined life, regardless of\norigin, gender or work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a homeless charity, we show solidarity with all those affected by evictions. Evictions only cause people to end up living in homelessness and they are also a symptom of a society and politics that are profit-oriented and that do not act in the best interest of the population. It has been known for years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"web324","author_link":"https:\/\/www.berliner-obdachlosenhilfe.de\/en\/blog\/author\/web324\/"},"yoast_head":"\n