Living - More than 27,300 forced evictions
Rent debts led to tens of thousands of apartments being evicted last year. More than 27,319 apartments were forcibly evicted in 2022, according to an answer from the German government to a question from the Left Party in the Bundestag, which is available to the German Press Agency. Rent debts are the most common cause of people losing their homes.
Caren Lay, the Left Party's expert on rent and housing, called for terminations to be revoked in the event of back rent payments and for "evictions into homelessness" to be banned. "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 figures, most evictions were carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia (8690), Bavaria (2579), Lower Saxony (2288) and Saxony (2265). In terms of the number of residents, Brandenburg (1085), Bremen (413), Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg (902) recorded the most evictions.
Lay even expects the total number of evictions to be around 30,000 in 2022. The reason for this is that the federal government has not provided data for all federal states. If you add missing data for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, as listed in the Deutsche Gerichtsvollzieher Zeitung, around 2,000 apartments are added to the total number, as the Left Party emphasizes. In the previous year, more than 29,000 homes in Germany were evicted.
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Source: www.stern.de
