Since it has been known that the apartment blocks in Grafinger Schloßstraße will change hands again, tenants have been worried.
They fear for their place to stay.
Grafing - affordable living space.
That always works well in election promises.
In Grafing it was no different in the recent local elections.
“Every candidate for mayor,” said City Councilor Walter Schmidtke of the Bavarian Party (BP), “had affordable housing in the city in their program”.
But now after the election, other issues have suddenly come to the fore.
The Bavarian party had invited to a demonstration in the parking lot in front of the Grafinger forest cemetery.
Topic: affordable housing.
About 30 people came, all for the same reason.
Dialog becomes demo
What should actually be a dialogue event had to be registered as a demonstration under the current Corona conditions.
The Bavarian party wants to know how the more than 100 residential parties in Schloßstraße are doing in the current situation before the upcoming sale of their apartments, said Schmidtke.
That with the demonstration was owed to the requirements of the Ebersberg district office.
The city of Grafing, for its part, assisted by putting up the appropriate signs in the parking lot. The participants had to wear a mask that they were only allowed to take off when speaking, and there was tape blocking the area.
Anyone who wants to buy can access it
All the “demonstrators” had one thing in common: it was the question of their future housing situation. Because they all live on Schloßstraße, and the blocks there are supposed to change hands one last time after many times. This time obviously not in the block, but as a single apartment sale. Looks lucrative, according to research by the Ebersberger Zeitung, there are also potential buyers in Grafing who are interested. Visits have already taken place, some reported. Some of the tenants, however, are extremely excited “because we don't know what to expect”. Anyone who wants to buy is welcome to buy, they have been assured. This was also confirmed by many of the previous residents. Those who spend their old age there will not be able to afford it. You are gladthat they have paid comparatively low rent all these years, especially those with long tenancies.
"That's why these buildings were built back then," said BP Bundestag candidate Simone Binder.
In this context, her party friend Günter Baumgartner criticized the fact that buildings, for example on the neighboring Klausenweg, were also built as socially favorable living space at the time, but have since been sold.
"But a replacement was never created."
A woman has been living in her modest apartment on Schloßstraße for 50 years.
“Since August 1970,” she reports.
She is annoyed that her balcony is currently being renovated, even though she had it so nicely done herself at her own expense.
The demand for “rent reduction” was also loud.
Because the blocks are currently being extensively renovated, which is evident from the construction noise during the day.
Schmidtke explains to the visitors of the event that he would consider the purchase of apartments in Schloßstraße by the city of Grafing to be a good idea.
The city has to use municipal funds to “stockpile land and stockpile apartments” in order to be able to rent them out “at reasonable prices”.
Tenant: "That'll kill me"
“That gets us down personally,” said an elderly woman frankly. The uncertainty is bad. Andreas Franz, the party's housing officer, tried to calm her down. According to his information, the tenants with long tenancies on Schloßstraße are better protected than those who have only recently moved into the blocks. "Those who live in it for more than ten years have ten years' protection against dismissal," he said literally. The meeting made it clear that the residents of Schloßstraße expect help from the city of Grafing. “They should invite us to the town hall,” said a woman who has also lived in Schloßstraße for decades and would like to stay. “I'm not leaving here,” she said in a conversation with the Ebersberger Zeitung a few weeks ago.