Trouble in the new refugee house: Current tenants in Stuttgart feel harassed
Created: 11/29/2022 3:23 p.m
By: Nadja Pohr
A tenant of the Stuttgart boarding house complained about a lack of hot water in some cases and problems with Internet and television reception since she had received the notice of termination.
The tenants' association criticizes that this is "psychological pressure".
(symbolic photo) © IMAGO/Sergio Monti
The boarding house in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf was rented by the city as additional refugee accommodation.
The tenants who still live there have felt harassed by the owners of the house ever since.
The rental association is now making an appeal to the city.
Stuttgart - A forecast in September expected around 1,300 new Ukraine refugees who could arrive in the state capital Stuttgart.
In view of the calculations, the city of Stuttgart built two container villages and also rented two former hotels with a total of 1,100 spaces and a boarding house in Weilimdorf (556 spaces).
However, there is now great trouble with the boarding house, as BW24 reports – the case has now even ended up at the Bad Cannstatt District Court.
Because the tenants currently living there accuse the landlord of the house of harassment.
One wants to disgust the residents out in order to accommodate the Ukrainian refugees in the apartments.
Trouble in new refugee accommodation: Residents complain about problems with hot water, internet and TV
Many residents of the boarding house in Stuttgart have already received notice of termination.
But since then, strange things have been happening in the house, as a tenant
tells
SWR .
"At some point we had no more WiFi, no hot water for a few days, and then cable TV was gone," reports the young woman.
In addition, the cleaning of the rooms has been stopped and it has already happened that people have entered the apartments without permission and asked for the date of departure, according to the
Stuttgarter Zeitung (StZ)
.
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The tenants feel harassed and believe that the owners want to evict them through these measures in order to be able to rent more apartments to refugees.
The chairman of the tenants' association, Rolf Gaßmann, is therefore appealing to the city administration to keep its promise that the residents "should not be pushed out".
In the meantime, they also fear that they will simply be thrown out on the street, writes Gaßmann in a letter to the town hall.
"But your contractual partner doesn't care about this assurance, obviously because the rent offered by the city for refugees is higher," he points out in the letter, according to the
StZ
.
Tenants' association fears that the mood in Stuttgart could soon change
The Stuttgart rental association has now received an injunction from the district court in Bad Cannstatt against the owners, the Dobler & Dr.
Dobler, requested to end the chicane.
In his letter, the chairman, Rolf Gaßmann, also warns the town hall leadership not to let the “psychological pressure on the tenants” in Weilimdorf escalate.
"Should the public get the impression that the city of Stuttgart is vacating apartments that are inhabited by citizens and rented for an unlimited period of time to house refugees, the mood against taking in refugees would change and the city would provide right-wing extremist agitators with arguments," he writes.
Should the city not be able to do anything against the owners either, the contract would have to be terminated.
