Posted on 05/14/2017 8:05:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years.
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.
In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently confiscated 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 — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.
The expropriation is authorized by the Hamburg Housing Protection Act (Hamburger Wohnraumschutzgesetz), a 1982 law that was updated by the city's Socialist government in May 2013 to enable the city to seize any residential property unit that has been vacant for more than four months.
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, according an estimate by the Hamburg Senate.
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Must be East Germany. The gubmint owns the housing.
They tell me I have to leave my home for a stupid migrant to use and they will be looking a charcoal to use in their cooking fires.
The world’s gone mad and they’re trying to take our president out. If we don’t fight back the left is going to destroy what’s left of western civilization. Who brainwashed or paid off this obcenity Merkel?
RKBA is key to our freedom against tyranny.
“All renovation costs are to be billed to the owner of the properties.”
Not at all fair or logical. Maybe this was a mistake in translation. If real, I predict there will be a lot of unexpected fires in these unoccupied properties, now under renovation.
Germany (of all nations!) has been sold out by its ruling elite. It looks too late now for good Germans to save their fatherland.
Guess the Germans should have kept up the Cold War then
During the Trail of Tears through our community, the Indian women went out to their apple tree orchards (they were agrarian Indians) and cut them all down the night before removal. There were local farmers looking forward to the easy reward of apples, which they did not get. That is how one handles confiscation. I would.
I don’t know what rbka stands for but does it stand for blowing all their heads off and covering what’s left with lye?
Why hasn’t Merkel been strung up yet? Mussolini didn’t betray Italy the way she has betrayed Germany.
Next it will be:
“we have determined that your larger house can house 15 people, so you must contain your family to the right front first floor”.
It’s for the good of the party!
Hey, France! Take a look! Do you think you made a smart decision?
It was the Hamburg Cell of Al Queda that planned, and carried out the 9/11 hijackings.
There's going to be civil war a lot of places. In Germany, this Inner Viking thing wakes up periodically, and wow. About now, Angela should be picking out which lamp post she prefers to hang from, upside-down. it will be just a few years down the road.
That's what South Arfican Whites should do as well during the coming mass evictions/seizing of White land...but they should pollute the land itself to make it useless for generations
“Who brainwashed or paid off this obcenity Merkel?”
The Saudis and their front man, Barack, who is running “the resistance” here.
2 Chronicles 32:4 - So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
A not-dissimilar situation and the same solution. It’s a bit odd, though, as it’s out of character - most of the time you don’t destroy water supplies. Of course, when you read further in the Bible, it’s pretty much implied that this ended up forcing the Assyrians to use a particular water source, into which apparently someone dumped something. First recorded (if mostly implied) instance of biological warfare.
As the author Neal Stephenson wrote in his novel _Snow Crash_:
“The forces of Sennacherib surrounded Jerusalem. ‘And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed . . .’ 2 Kings 19:35–36.”
“I’ll bet he did. So let me get this straight: the deuteronomists, through Hezekiah, impose a policy of informational hygiene on Jerusalem and do some civil-engineering work—you said they worked on the water supply?”
“‘They stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?” ‘ 2 Chronicles 32: 4. Then the Hebrews carved a tunnel seventeen hundred feet through solid rock to carry that water inside city walls.”
“And then as soon as Sennacherib’s soldiers came on the scene, they all dropped dead of what can only be understood as an extremely virulent disease, to which the people of Jerusalem were apparently immune. Hmm, interesting—I wonder what got into their water?”
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