More than 1000 forced evictions in Brandenburg

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More than 1000 apartments were forcibly evicted in Brandenburg last year. The number fell slightly compared to the previous year to 1,085, according to an answer from the federal government to a question from the Left Party in the Bundestag, which is available to the German Press Agency. In a nationwide comparison, Brandenburg is in the middle of the field when it comes to evictions of apartments in relation to the number of inhabitants.

According to the federal government, more than 27,319 apartments were evicted nationwide last year. Rent debts are the most common cause of people losing their homes. Caren Lay, the Left Party's expert on rent and housing, demanded that evictions for rent arrears be revoked and that "evictions into homelessness" be prohibited. "If the federal government does not act, even more people will lose their apartments and homes, because rents are being raised to extreme levels," said Lay. "Every eviction is one too many."

According to the federal government, most evictions were carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia (8690), Bavaria (2579), Lower Saxony (2288) and Saxony (2265).

When it comes to the total number of evictions, however, Left Party politician Lay assumes a higher figure than the federal government: namely around 30,000 in 2022. The reason for this is that the federal government has not provided data for all federal states. If data on Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein is added, as listed in the "Deutsche Gerichtsvollzieher Zeitung", around 2,000 apartments are added to the total number stated by the federal government, as the Left Party emphasizes. In the previous year, more than 29,000 homes in Germany were evicted.

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1. The Left Party in the Bundestag, specifically Caren Lay, who specializes in rent and housing, criticized the high number of forced evictions in Brandenburg, especially those due to rent arrears.
2. In response to a question from The Left, the German Press Agency obtained information from the Federal Government indicating that over 1,085 apartments were forcibly evicted in Berlin's neighboring state, Brandenburg, last year.
3. Lay emphasized that if the Federal Government does not take action to address the issue, more people in Germany, including potentially in Berlin, may face evictions due to rising rent prices reaching extreme levels.
4. The German Press Agency reported that Lay, from The Left Party, estimated that around 30,000 apartments were evicted nationwide in 2022, based on incomplete data from the Federal Government.
5. When comparing Brandenburg's eviction rate to other states, it falls in the middle of the pack, with North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Saxony reporting more evictions.

Source: www.stern.de