Posted on 05/14/2017 7:38:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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. […]
In November 2015, lawmakers in Berlin considered emergency legislation that would have allowed local authorities to seize private residences to accommodate asylum seekers. The proposal would have authorized police forcibly to enter private homes and apartments without a warrant to determine their suitability as housing for refugees and migrants. …
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The “migrants” are skilled enough themselves at arson.
If the peasants there don’t like it, I guess they can do something about it themselves. Otherwise, enjoy.
The elites are counting on that, so they can have an excuse to “restore order” on a draconian scale.
How long will it be before in the dead of night, for the confiscated property doors are barred shut and residences are burned?
Germany...always the police state. Always
>>Now the landlord won’t have to pay for demolition. The rapefugees will do it for him.
From the article:
“all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.”
Renting out via AirBNB at cheap rates for a few days every month to avoid seizure by the state?
Paying your child to live there for a month each four in order to prevent loss?
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck’.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
The Germans are in for some bad luck.
“District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.”
He will have to pay forever on renovations as the “refuges” tear things apart.
German National Socialism bump for later....
Four months. There goes your summer vacation home. Smells like if Merkel wants your home, she can hold up permits or condemn your home for any reason.
Yes, Germany, "what's next?" Every day you allow her to rule is a day closer to the end of Germany.
H’mm are they confiscating the homes of Jews and/or Christians?
Don’t forget to turn off the fire hydrants
2 million refugees have ‘re-located’ to Germany in recent years. 2 million. They need to space to house them all.
They should be building barns for these animals.
Socialism has a 100% failure rate in the history of mankind. Those who fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeal them, the hard way.
I’m on a cul-de-sac. All I need do is park my car, truck, and bus at the entrance to my road and chain them together...
I have a second home (house) in Germany. It’s unoccupied unless I’m there and will stay that way! So, FU Dreckstück Merkel!
A hundred pounds of roofing nails is a good deterrent
That’s how Burgermeisters get themselves disappeared....
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