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A bed in an emergency shelter: The municipality of Moosinning is creating three new places for homeless people by building a container on Bleichbach (symbolic photo).
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By building a container at Bleichbach, the municipality of Moosinning is creating three new places for the homeless.
Moosinning – The municipality of Moosinning will build a container on Bleichbach to temporarily accommodate homeless people.
The local council decided this unanimously at its meeting on Tuesday after a short discussion.
“There has been accommodation for homeless people on Kirchenstrasse for decades,” explained Mayor Georg Nagler (SPD).
A male person currently lives there.
Some time ago, the community had to take care of a homeless woman who could not be accommodated there: “Man and woman – that cannot be done together.” The homeless woman was therefore quartered in a guesthouse.
Therefore, an additional property is urgently needed.
A container solution is planned where a maximum of three people - three men - could be accommodated.
“That’s not ideal for a woman with a child,” admitted the mayor.
The container is to be built on the Am Bleichbach construction site.
“The direct neighbors haven’t signed, I can understand that,” said Nagler.
“It is our community duty,” added Werner Fleischer (BE).
“If we have to accommodate people in a hotel, then that is of course a very cost-intensive solution,” emphasized the deputy mayor.
“We have a humane solution here” – although not a permanent solution, he emphasized.
“Homelessness does not have to mean destitute,” said Otto Kellermann (AfD) and asked what happens when a homeless person has a certain amount of wealth.
“If he has money in the account, then he has to rent somewhere himself and is out of the question for a homeless shelter,” explained business manager Silvia Hermansdorfer.
She then answered a question from Monika Stangl (CSU) in the affirmative as to whether the municipality had to cover the entire cost of the container.
Andreas Humplmair (CSU) wanted to know whether the accommodation on Kirchenstrasse was still the top priority when it came to accommodating homeless people. Hermansdorfer also answered in the affirmative and once again explicitly pointed out that men and women would always be accommodated separately: “Two genders, two Apartments".
She also says that there was a homeless person who had lived on Kirchenstrasse for a total of six years: “For social housing, the waiting time is currently between four and eight years.” And she added that “some of them leave quickly, because they found work.”
Nagler was pleased that “there are also successes” and reported on a homeless person “who we found a job and who really blossomed.”
Fleischer also remembered the man: “He was close to ending up under the Isar bridge.
Now he’s fully engaged in working life.”