The Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW) has had its say in the debate about high energy costs: Tenants should be protected against dismissal under certain conditions.
“As in the course of the corona pandemic, the socially oriented housing companies will not make any terminations due to late payment of the utility bills, even in the energy crisis,” said GdW President Axel Gedaschko to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Gedaschko added that nobody should lose their apartment because of financial difficulties caused by the crisis. In coordination with the tenants, individual solutions and installment payments should therefore be agreed.
However, the effects of the energy crisis could not be solved with the means of tenancy law, said the GdW President. The federal government should “finally tackle the problems at the root and introduce a gas price cap”. This is the easiest way to prevent price increases from reaching companies and consumers.
The Union, the left, trade unions and economists are also demanding a gas price cap. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has so far rejected such a concept, citing the federal government’s relief packages.
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