Against usurious rents: "Syndikatsprojekt Nürnberg" wants to promote self-determined living

Created: 01/17/2022, 18:30

Housing is becoming increasingly expensive in many parts of Germany.

A Nuremberg project wants to counteract the exorbitant rental price.

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A house that does not belong to anyone: The "Mietshäuser Syndikat" model in Nuremberg is a pioneer in matters of self-determined living and in the fight against exorbitant rents in Germany.

Nuremberg - Living in Germany is expensive - at least in many parts of the Federal Republic.

The model "Mietshäuser Syndikat", as it exists in Nuremberg*, wants to counter usury in rents.

A look at "ImmoScout" and other portals sobers many tenants and apartment seekers.

Estimated prices in Bavaria keep shooting up, with no end in sight.

It is all the more interesting to take a look at Nuremberg, where a small but indomitable group has committed itself to the “tenement house syndicate” model.

Annika Kreipp is part of it and enthusiastically explains to

: "You can throw a house project like this on your own responsibility and self-organization." In addition, you cannot be thrown out and determine the rent yourself. 

Nuremberg "Rental Syndicate": Financing through personal loans 

The group around Kreipp is in the process of acquiring a new house for the syndicate.

She was also involved in the purchase of the "Crow's Garden", the first project of this kind in Nuremberg.

To do this, like-minded people get together, mostly the future residents, and try to get personal loans from family and friends.  

If this covers a certain proportion of the purchase price of the desired property, some banks accept this basic stock as the basis for the loan to buy a house, writes Bayerischer Rundfunk.

In addition to the crow's garden in Nuremberg, there are six other syndicate houses in Bavaria. 

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"Syndicate project Nuremberg" starts a new project 

On the "Syndikatsprojekt Nürnberg" homepage, all those involved explain what the matter is about: "We want to realize the project because we want to live together in a self-managed and self-determined manner and also consider affordable housing to be an indispensable fundamental right." 

Decisions are made collectively, there is no landlord.

The people who organize themselves in a limited liability company pay the rent and all associated costs themselves. Due to the veto right of the syndicate, the houses can no longer be sold on the open market.

A model that, according to the syndicate, “has proven itself in over 150 projects throughout Germany”.

That's why the crowd around Annika Kreipp wants to continue and is currently looking for a house in Nuremberg with a living space of 500 m².