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)…
One Swiss pol says this looks staged for election politics, since finding housing in this case should not have lead to evicting a long term resident.
The municipal officers of the community say that is not the case because there are relatively high number of refugees to resettle.
So where do the Swiss citizens in the apartments go? To Ukraine?
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They’ll prolly show up at eagle pass next week
To Algeria.
“...he has a very steep hill to climb....”
The Alps tend to be steep. They have no shortage of cog railroads there....
Yes, same tale of easier to find a place for the lone Swiss man than a whole family of refugees.
Hard to tell who is playing politics here, SP or SPV or both. Politicians gonna politic.
Interesting that the municipal council has been flooded with “hate mail” and the council guy has received death threats. Well, “hate mail” depends on the person calling it that and how they define it. The death threats? How totally un-Swiss. I wonder whether those came from Swiss citizens or from “guest workers”.
The Swiss do appear to have their dander up about this. Which is Swiss. They take citizens’ rights very seriously (and citizens’ responsibilities, too).
Good find. Thanks for posting.
Tiny Switzerland has taken in almost as many Ukrainian refugees as we have:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312584/ukrainian-refugees-by-country/
https://www.newsweek.com/over-82000-ukrainians-refugees-paroled-us-immigration-1766251
“Better 1,000 ukrainians than a single Muslim.”
Agreed, but Germany already did this with Muslim refugees in 2015.
Just wait until the Turks in Germany get replaced.
They won’t be calm like White folks are.
That’s nice. (/s)🙄
“Taking in refugees is not easy for Switzerland, as they have a chronic shortage of affordable housing.”
It doesn’t help that heights of buildings are restricted to three stories. Basement “cages” were provided apartments to store essentials in case of nuclear war.
(At least that was the case, when I was there).
Although I am a student of the German language, Swiss-German remains a totally-alien language to me. My one Swiss relative speaks five languages!
Not sure if one of those languages is Romansh.
Ah, yes, the bomb shelter cages. Everyone used them for storage bins when I lived there. Lots of Swiss used the ones in their homes for wine cellars and joked that at least they’d die happily drunk in case of nuclear attack. Yes, you were supposed to keep them stocked with stuff to survive, but nobody did. There were also jokes floating around that in case of nuclear war, only the Swiss and the cockroaches would survive.
Because the elevator button for the bomb shelter/cage area in the basement was marked K (Keller) we called it K. “I’m going to K to get our suitcases.” I kept the bike I rode to school down there in our cage. All the kids kept their bikes and scooters in the cages.
Swiss-German sounds kinda like Bavarian German as spoken by the Swedish chef of the Muppets, doesn’t it, but more guttural and spittle-producing. School was taught in High German, but the kids spoke Swiss German among themselves outside of class. So I had to suddenly learn both at once (and got them tangled up at first).
And it varies from village to village. There were two butcher shops within walking distance of our apartment, in two different villages, and my mother shopped at both. The butchers loved to tease my mother by pretending not to understand the Swiss-German as spoken in the other village and indignantly corrected her for using the other version. Ask for a Schweinsplätzli with the Schwein part pronounced with a long I? “No, don’t understand. Oh! You mean Schweinsplätzli (pronounced with long E)!” Go to the other butcher and ask for “Schweinsplätzli” with a long E like the other guy taught you, and no, he didn’t understand unless you used a long I. It nearly drove her crazy and made it hard for her to learn Swiss-German, but once she got the joke and got the hang of it, enjoyed joking with the butchers.
Yes, Swiss speak at least four languages. Not all that many can speak Romansh, at least when I was there. It is such a beautiful language. I loved hearing it. I hope it can be preserved. So many languages dying.
Yes, the strict building codes contribute to the housing shortage and expense. And hey, you better plant red geraniums in your window boxes as directed, not white or pink! Or the building committee will call on you. And polish that front doorknob every single day.
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