In Germany, 1700 Ukrainians are evicted from refugee apartments. War refugees were obliged to vacate their homes in one of the districts in Saxony by July.
The apartments are to be transferred to asylum seekers from other countries, RBC-Ukraine reports citing Bild.
Ukrainian refugees in the Rudnye Hory district of Saxony have received letters from local authorities stating that they must vacate their housing by July. Now 1700 Ukrainians will have to leave 650 apartments in Aue, Chopau and Marienberg.
The district urgently needs to return the housing from the fund for refugees, including those from Syria, Afghanistan, and Turkey, who are seeking asylum in the region. Now the places for this category of people are 90% full. Officials say that if no housing is found, asylum seekers will have to be placed in tent or container camps.
Since the beginning of the war, people from Ukraine who are not considered refugees but receive assistance as low-income Germans have been living in refugee apartments. Therefore, they have to take care of the housing on their own.
There is a housing cooperative in the neighborhood that was built during the GDR, and 20% of its apartments are vacant. The first requests for this housing have already been received from Ukrainians. But empty apartments need repairs, which take two months to complete.
Local authorities will look for individualized solutions if Ukrainians take longer to find housing. Those who refuse to move can be accommodated in the shelter in the gym.
