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Final destination refugee home: no chance on the Bavarian housing market for refugees from the Ukraine

2022-10-03T03:14:07.302Z


Final destination refugee home: no chance on the Bavarian housing market for refugees from the Ukraine Created: 03/10/2022 04:56 By: Katrin Woitsch, Natalia Aleksieieva Ukrainian refugees in an emergency shelter (symbol image). © Stephan Schulz/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/archive image The refugee shelters in Bavaria are almost full. Also because refugees have hardly any chances on the housing market.


Final destination refugee home: no chance on the Bavarian housing market for refugees from the Ukraine

Created: 03/10/2022 04:56

By: Katrin Woitsch, Natalia Aleksieieva

Ukrainian refugees in an emergency shelter (symbol image).

© Stephan Schulz/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/archive image

The refugee shelters in Bavaria are almost full.

Also because refugees have hardly any chances on the housing market.

At the same time, more asylum seekers are arriving.

Munich – Yana often lies awake at night and cannot sleep.

Not only because of the worries about her family and friends in her Ukrainian hometown Kharkiv.

But also because it is loud in the accommodation on Neuherbergstrasse in Munich.

The 48-year-old has lived there for months.

She has a small area: a locker, a narrow board, a shelf.

Thin, half-height wooden walls protect them from the eyes of others, but not from the noise.


Yana has been living in the shelter for more than three months.

When she fled to Bavaria, she first stayed with a family.

But when her son returned from America, she needed the room again.

Yana had to move out.

She couldn't find an apartment - so she had no choice but accommodation.

She fears it will stay that way for a long time.

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Especially in metropolitan areas like Munich, it is almost impossible for refugees to find apartments.

The city's social department receives up to 14,000 applications for socially subsidized housing every year - and now significantly more due to the Ukraine war.

"But only about 3,000 apartments per year become available," says spokeswoman Edith Petry.

"It's a huge dilemma."

Almost 15,000 refugees from Ukraine live in Munich

Almost 15,000 refugees from Ukraine live in Munich, 1,330 in communal accommodation.

Across Bavaria, 13,000 Ukrainian refugees are housed in community accommodation.

Most of the facilities are transitional facilities, for example lightweight halls that only separate areas with partition walls, as in Neuherbergerstraße.

Different standards apply to long-term accommodation, says a spokeswoman for the social department.

There, the refugees live in shared rooms, families have a room to themselves.

According to the government of Upper Bavaria, these facilities are almost fully occupied.

Around 1,851 so-called false occupants live there – recognized asylum seekers who cannot find any apartments.

The housing market in the Munich area is similarly tense.

And the number of newly arriving refugees is steadily increasing.

In some regions, new accommodations are already being planned to prevent gymnasiums from having to be converted again soon.


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The district of Weilheim-Schongau is planning six accommodations with a total of 520 places.

There are 1,738 places in the current facilities, 167 people who failed to do so live there – some of them for five years because they have no chance on the housing market.

180 beds are still free.

But the district office is watching the rising number of refugees with concern.

By the beginning of August, more than 115,000 initial applications for asylum had been made in Germany, and the trend is rising.

The new accommodations in the Weilheim-Schongau district could be ready for occupancy in early summer 2023.

In Puchheim there is great resistance to an increase in accommodation

In Puchheim in the Fürstenfeldbruck district, there is great resistance to an increase in accommodation.

The owner of an asylum accommodation there wanted to more than double the existing capacity.

Instead of the previous 160 people, there would then be space for 400 refugees.

Mayor Norbert Seidl is alarmed: "This is a magnitude that we can no longer cope with." Because beds are not enough.

People also need kindergarten places, schools and help with dealing with the authorities.


As in many other regions, the number of asylum workers has fallen drastically.

Of the initially 100 volunteers in Puchheim, 15 are still left.

The larger accommodation would triple the number of refugees.

Integration is then no longer possible.

The Puchheim city council saw it that way - and unanimously rejected the expansion.


But the number of free places in the accommodations is decreasing.

Also because many private individuals who took in Ukrainians need their living space back.

Most refugees have to move to shelters.

The social department in Munich has no choice but to put people on the waiting lists, says Edith Petry.

“But they are very long.” Anyone who cannot find an apartment on their own has little chance.

(with bo/op/gar)

You can read all further information on the Ukraine war and its effects in Bavaria here on our Ukraine refugees topic page.

Source: merkur

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