Swiss tenant has to leave apartment for Ukrainian refugees
Posted on 02/25/2023 2:34:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
This is bad, real bad! I don’t want to see that in my country! Swiss citizens are now facing forced evictions to house Ukrainian refugees. Just one step further and officials in Switzerland will start requisitioning private property and possessions for Ukrainian refugees. This has already started in Germany…
In the latest news, the municipality of Seegräben in Canton Zürich is throwing out a long-term tenant out of his apartment because they are unable to find apartments to accommodate asylum seekers from Ukraine.
I think this is just the beginning… Fight for your rights…
Swiss tenant has to leave apartment for Ukrainian refugees
Here is the translation of the document above:
A long-term renter of a 5.5-room apartment in the municipality of Seegräben, Zürich has received a letter of termination from the municipal administration. He has to leave his apartment before May 31, 2023 to be replaced by Ukrainian refugees.
“Despite an intensive search in recent weeks, no suitable apartments can currently be found on the open market,” writes the municipal administration.
Comment: I must say, this is not his problem at all…
Of course, the outrage on social media is great. “Incredible!” writes a Twitter user. “Incredible, where are we?” one person commented on Facebook. “You ‘can’ deal with a Swiss citizen like that… For me, a bottomless impertinence.” Others call on the municipality to support the tenant in finding an apartment. “That would be the least the community could do.”
This is how the mayor Marco Pezzatti confirmed the letter to some news portals in Switzerland: “It was clear to us that this measure would not be without. It was a very difficult decision for the community. Unfortunately, this measure was the last chance to achieve the acceptance quota for refugees prescribed by the canton. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to take unpopular decisions if you want to comply with the requirements of the authorities”
According to official specifications, the village should take in 13 refugees – but only nine have been living there for several months.
“Over the last six months, we have been trying hard to find housing for refugees. We have asked privates and even real estate portals – but unfortunately without success,” says Pezzatti.
The affected apartment is to be occupied by a family of five in the future.
Another municipality, Mettmenstetten, will buy an apartment for over a million francs for refugees The Zurich municipality of Mettmenstetten, ZH, is taking a different approach to the problem.
In order to be able to cover the increased need for apartments for asylum seekers by the summer of 2023, the municipality wants to buy a 5.5-room apartment worth CHF 1.045 million.
The community resists… More than 50 appeals have been received.
Same in Germany
Just a few days ago, I published on my newsletter another case of forced removal of tenants for refugees. At least 40 residents of Wölbinstrasse 21 to 29 in Lörrach, near the Swiss border, have to leave their homes for the same reason.
According to another termination letter, the entire housing complex is to be cleared by the end of 2023 and will be used to house Ukrainian refugees.
The war is terrible, of course. People from Ukraine need a roof over their heads, of course. But don’t put some Swiss or German guys on the street to house those war refugees… This will just lead to more hate against them (because it is already high enough)…
Start with the municipal administration members and Mayor Marco Pezzatti.
Betcha then they will find a place for the Uks.
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What do those people expect from living in “municipal” (government) housing? The government has tried to get private landlords to play along and haven’t been very successful. Those renters have been lucky so far that they haven’t been evicted for muslims.
bkmk
I don’t see a whole lot of difference...
Public Housing - Anything a government can provide, a government can take.
From the Eviction Notice: “”We regret that we could not find any other solution and hope that you will find a new apartment quickly””
And if they cannot....??
“”If you find a new apartment before the end of the notice period (you can leave your current home before the Eviction)””
So...if, somehow, the long-term resident of the apartment can find another place before the actual eviction, why can’t the refugees live in that one, and not displace the long-term person(s)??
“”We hope that despite the unpleasant situation for you, the tenancy can be concluded with mutual respect and decency.””
Respect?? Decent?? Pitch a tent right outside the home of these bureaucrats. Form your own local ‘council’ and evict these bureaucrats, make them live in the tent outside their former home.
The Swiss are one of the most heavily armed populations in the world. All able-bodied males keep a real assault rifle in their homes and practice with it regularly.
Send ‘em here. There’s plenty of blue and yellow flag wavers who will gladly let them move in. /s
The Swiss Government picked a side. Sadly for the Swiss People, it was the WRONG SIDE.
Swiss residents are thrown out of their apartments.
You have family in the old country?.
Where are those people supposed to go?
They are impervious to the explanation that a wide latitude of permission is not the same as being able to act despite the government.
“”If you find a new apartment before the end of the notice period...tell us where it is, and we’ll kick you out of that one too”
Why doesn’t the Davos crowd donate some of their mansions. I’ll bet there is plenty of room in them to support a great number of refugees.
It’s funny how none of the elite are being imposed upon to make sacrifices for others. They are just the ones demanding everyone else make the sacrifices.
So where do the Swiss citizens in the apartments go? To Ukraine?
Switzerland is not WEFland. They just provide the venue for the thing. Their money is good. Swiss like money. I lived there for awhile as a young girl and attended a Swiss school. Yes, Switzerland has certainly changed since then, but Swiss are still Swiss. And still very particular about citizenship, although not to the extreme they once were. They also have a thing about helping refugees. In principle, they are all for it, but the reality is not always nice (refugees from Kosovo brought a lot of crime and shocking violence to placid law-abiding Switzerland).
Anyway, the story is legit:
According to the video on that site, the poor guy being evicted lived alone in the “spacious” apartment on the uppermost floor (lower floors a kindergarten), and had been living there for 15 years. The apartment is large enough for the refugee family who will occupy it. I gathered the apartment is owned my the municipality and he had been renting it from them. They are protecting his identity/privacy so did not come out and say so, but it’s likely he worked for the municipality.
The man being evicted says he has only two weeks left to find a new home for himself and his two cats and has not been able to find any place yet. It is very difficult to find housing and he has a very steep hill to climb and does not know if he will be able to find anything.
My Swiss-German is rusty these days and I lived in Canton Aargau (Swiss-German varies from village to village, even within walking distance), but I was able to understand most of it. Nothing else much more or different than in the article.
Housing has always been tight in Switzerland. They insist on being able to feed themselves if need be, and no agricultural lands may be used for housing. There is only so much land to build on. It is also horribly expensive. They had hundred-year mortgages when I lived there decades ago. Taking in refugees is not easy for Switzerland, as they have a chronic shortage of affordable housing.
They are big on sovereignty, though. Not in the EU, not in NATO. They do trade in the single market, though. Even though Swiss are big on “alles in Ordnung”, the crazy bureaucratic new customs regulations on Bündnerfleisch (very Swiss spiced thin slices of air-dried beef, delicious but smells like feet) were so ridiculous they cracked up Federal Counselor Merz at the Bundesrat (this video always cracks me up and I love this guy):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwIqYk6LGAU
See? The Swiss aren’t so bad after all.
It’s not “government housing” as we think of it. The apartment is on the top floor, the lower floors are a kindergarten. The municipality rented out the top floor as an apartment.
Housing is very, very tight in Switzerland. See my #36 for more.
“Kapo Soros, Kapo Schwab, and the new World Order.”
‘zactly !!
Same as U.S. population replacement Plan, on track and full steam.
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