once Again, hundreds of tenants of a German Living in the middle of the Winter without heating and warm water. By the roadside around 450 tenants affected, according to information from the tenants initiative Kotti&Co. Since the houses are inhabited in the district of Kreuzberg, mostly from larger families, attributed the Initiative to an average of three persons per household, approximately 1350 people are affected.
the rows of houses on the South-Western side of the Kottbusser tor (Skalitzer Straße – Admiral street – kohlfurter Strasse are Affected). There has been a “in the first three weeks of January, problems with the heating systems and ten days total failure of the hot water supply”. Also on the Eastern side (Kottbusser road Marianne road – reichenberger Straße) would the tenant need to get to the part four weeks without heating and without hot water out.
Telephone and in writing, daily mirror-requests to the breakdown of the German Living and are so far unanswered.
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The massive disruptions of heating and hot water systems in the stocks of the publicly listed Deutsche Wohnen are repeated in each heating season. Therefore, it was in February two years ago, to a hearing in the Berlin house of representatives. This also includes the head of the housing group, Michael Zahn was invited. This was justified by the roadside in order that the heating systems were not owned by the apartment company. It was designed to encourage this “back again purchase”.
in addition, Dental insured: “We are investing in these heating systems”. The company Director continues: “I can’t promise you that there is no heating system fails, but I can promise you one thing: We have a 24-hours-of-Service placed, day and night, so that the tenants have no heating, have in the future, at least a Radiator.”
residents complain of unsuspecting management
The help does not come but obviously for the residents. The Initiative, according to the tenants complain that “Deutsche Wohnen fact, again and again, as if she knew nothing of the Problem.”
The Deutsche Wohnen has been for years because of their dealing with the tenants in the criticism. To Rent some of their homes above the local to enforce, they moved their tenants to court and questioned the validity of the Berlin rent index. According to a report by Heinz-J. Bontrup, Professor at the westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, the investments of the company in the maintenance manageable, you prefer modernization. Background: costs of modernization (but not for maintenance) may proportionally be on the tenant passed – and higher Rents, the returns of a real estate company improve.
the people’s initiative wants to company to expropriate
The controversial business practices of the Deutsche Wohnen made the company a target for rent activists. You want to force through a people’s initiative, the Berlin Senate to socialize the company””. In April, the signature starts collection. Voters-polls show that more people are in favour of such a step as against it. The Initiative is designed to apply to it for the first time, article 15 of the basic law. Prospects for the success of the assault, but not signatures of the enforcement of an already-formulated law. Instead, the Senate needs to take in the event of a successful vote, just the decision to draft a corresponding law. The country would have to deal its own lawyers with the Causa.
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