Statistics - Nationwide comparison: many forced evictions in Saxony
Compared to other federal states, many evictions were carried out in Saxony in 2022. A total of 2,265 residential properties were evicted in the state last year, according to an answer from the federal government to a question from the Left Party in the Bundestag, which was made available to the German Press Agency. More evictions were only recorded in North Rhine-Westphalia (8690), Bavaria (2579) and Lower Saxony (2288). Saxony also recorded a high number of evictions in relation to the number of inhabitants in the individual federal states.
Compared to the previous year, the number of evictions in Saxony has fallen. According to the federal government, 402 more apartments were evicted in 2021. Rent debts are therefore the most common cause of people losing their homes.
According to the data, more than 27,319 apartments were evicted nationwide last year. 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." 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 countries.
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- The Left Party in the Bundestag inquired about eviction figures from the various federal states, including Saxony, Berlin, and North Rhine-Westphalia.
- In response to this inquiry, the Federal Government revealed that Saxony had the second highest number of evictions in 2022, according to statistics from the German Press Agency.
- Interestingly, Saxony's neighboring Free State of Thuringia had fewer evictions than even smaller states like Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
- The federal government also provided data showing that Berlin, although a larger city, had fewer evictions than the smaller state of Saxony in 2022.
- The German Press Agency also reported that the Bundestag's joint committee on housing, construction, urban development, and regional planning is set to discuss the issue of evictions in Germany, including the role of the Federal Government.
- Caren Lay, the Left Party's expert on rent and housing, compared the eviction figures across Germany, expressing concern that the number of evictions in some states, like Saxony, are far too high.
- Lay also criticized the Federal Government for not taking sufficient measures to address the issue of increasing rents, which she believes is causing the rise in evictions across Germany, especially in states like Saxony, Bavaria, and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Source: www.stern.de
