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Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants [Hamburg]
Gatestone Institute ^ | May 14, 2017 at 5:00 am | Soeren Kern

Posted on 05/14/2017 7:38:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years.

City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015, when Merkel opened German borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, however, the city is expropriating residential property units owned by private citizens.

In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently confiscated six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center. The units, which are owned by a private landlord, are in need of repair and have been vacant since 2012. A trustee appointed by the city is now renovating the properties and will rent them — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.

The expropriation is authorized by the Hamburg Housing Protection Act (Hamburger Wohnraumschutzgesetz), a 1982 law that was updated by the city’s Socialist government in May 2013 to enable the city to seize any residential property unit that has been vacant for more than four months. […]

In November 2015, lawmakers in Berlin considered emergency legislation that would have allowed local authorities to seize private residences to accommodate asylum seekers. The proposal would have authorized police forcibly to enter private homes and apartments without a warrant to determine their suitability as housing for refugees and migrants. …

(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: confiscation; eurabia; europe; germany; germanyjihad; guncontrol; hamburg; hijrah; homeconfiscation; refugeecrisis; rop; tyranny
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To: silverleaf

The “migrants” are skilled enough themselves at arson.


21 posted on 05/14/2017 8:43:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If the peasants there don’t like it, I guess they can do something about it themselves. Otherwise, enjoy.


22 posted on 05/14/2017 8:47:50 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Dr. Pritchett

The elites are counting on that, so they can have an excuse to “restore order” on a draconian scale.


23 posted on 05/14/2017 8:50:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How long will it be before in the dead of night, for the confiscated property doors are barred shut and residences are burned?


24 posted on 05/14/2017 8:56:52 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Olog-hai

Germany...always the police state. Always


25 posted on 05/14/2017 9:01:06 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

>>Now the landlord won’t have to pay for demolition. The rapefugees will do it for him.

From the article:
“all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.”


26 posted on 05/14/2017 9:06:13 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: KarlInOhio

Renting out via AirBNB at cheap rates for a few days every month to avoid seizure by the state?
Paying your child to live there for a month each four in order to prevent loss?


27 posted on 05/14/2017 9:11:32 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Nifster

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck’.”
- Robert A. Heinlein

The Germans are in for some bad luck.


28 posted on 05/14/2017 9:11:33 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.”

He will have to pay forever on renovations as the “refuges” tear things apart.


29 posted on 05/14/2017 9:16:46 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

German National Socialism bump for later....


30 posted on 05/14/2017 9:17:42 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: TangoLimaSierra
enable the city to seize any residential property unit that has been vacant for more than four months

Four months. There goes your summer vacation home. Smells like if Merkel wants your home, she can hold up permits or condemn your home for any reason.

Yes, Germany, "what's next?" Every day you allow her to rule is a day closer to the end of Germany.

31 posted on 05/14/2017 10:17:22 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Olog-hai

H’mm are they confiscating the homes of Jews and/or Christians?


32 posted on 05/14/2017 10:57:13 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Don W

Don’t forget to turn off the fire hydrants


33 posted on 05/14/2017 11:09:16 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Olog-hai

2 million refugees have ‘re-located’ to Germany in recent years. 2 million. They need to space to house them all.


34 posted on 05/14/2017 11:18:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

They should be building barns for these animals.


35 posted on 05/14/2017 11:20:24 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: Olog-hai

Socialism has a 100% failure rate in the history of mankind. Those who fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeal them, the hard way.


36 posted on 05/14/2017 11:24:32 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Keyhopper

I’m on a cul-de-sac. All I need do is park my car, truck, and bus at the entrance to my road and chain them together...


37 posted on 05/14/2017 7:10:28 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Olog-hai

I have a second home (house) in Germany. It’s unoccupied unless I’m there and will stay that way! So, FU Dreckstück Merkel!


38 posted on 05/14/2017 8:51:34 PM PDT by ANKE69 (Les Deplorables)
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To: Don W

A hundred pounds of roofing nails is a good deterrent


39 posted on 05/14/2017 9:04:09 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: All

That’s how Burgermeisters get themselves disappeared....


40 posted on 05/15/2017 7:04:31 AM PDT by Maverick68
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