Actually, have lost the tenants and hirer of the settlement, Hofacker. Soon, the notice will be in your letter box. It demolition, new construction, expensive re-letting to follow. A classic on the Zurich housing market. Unstoppable.

A part of those fights anyway. They have established a IG, invite each other into their homes, think of strategies, collecting signatures, walking with banners through the neighborhood.

so Far, nothing has changed after all. Therefore, they put all their hopes on a nearly 40-year-old document that none of them has ever seen.

The 42 three-room apartments and four Studios at the Hegibachplatz not belong to a real estate company. The owner of the Foundation GGN, named after the non-profit company is Neumünster. Citizens of Hirslanden was founded in the year 1831, to combat the widespread poverty. Today it is supposed to promote “social projects” as it is called in the Foundation’s purpose. As a main activity, it operates the old people’s home Aventine, which is also located at the hegibachplatz.

dispute Last will and Testament

The Foundation GGN has bought the five-Hofacker-houses, nor built. The settlement from the year 1930, once belonged to a married couple by the name of Adolph and Johanna pine-Figi, Johanna survived her husband, died in 1979. The pine-Figis had decided to give the houses after her death, the company is Neumünster. The conditions they kept in a kind of contract, the Legat. It is that document, from which the residents of the rescue promise.

your new plans announced by the GGN is already one and a half years. 48 new apartments want to create. Two-thirds of which would be awarded on the basis of the market prices, with a third (those that lie directly on the road) cheap, non-profit Rent. As a future tenant you will prefer older people, writes the Foundation of the TA.

The average monthly rent for an advertised three-room apartment is around the Hegibachplatz 2320 francs (as of 2017). The Hofacker homes currently cost about half as much, around 1050 to 1400 francs. The low price is wanted, says Roger dust of the tenant-resistance group IG Hofacker. The legacy before the writing of the Foundation GGN, rent the apartments according to the rules of charitable status. The Plan, to request from the new project, market prices, contrary to the Last will of the pine-Figis. Therefore, he is illegal. “We would have the legacy, we could challenge the project legally,” says Erika Wey, which participates also in the case of the IG.

“members of the Association as we need to give the Foundation insight into the legacy.”Roger dust and Mischa Schiwow

In this statement, it is a Conclude. Of the IG no one has read the legate, not even those tenants who have already been living for several decades in the Hofacker settlement. Hope the IG Hofacker from various Clues. In the 175-year-Anniversary publication, which issued the GGN in 2006, for example, that the Hofacker-Legat “cost-effective Live a good location”.

The Foundation GGN refuses the legate of the tenants, or to show the TA. It was a confidential document. Therefore, the IG has submitted Hofacker complaint with the cantonal Foundation Supervisory authority (BVS). It controls whether non-profit foundations fulfill their own requirements. Projects of this Size, you will be tested regularly on their legality, says BVS Director Roger Tischhauser. “Our investigations revealed that the project supervision is not legally objectionable.” The Foundation has not exceeded the rules of its discretion failed.

This decision of the BVS has changed little. The Foundation GGN holds the legate still under lock and key. The tenants and their supporters continue to demand it. The Supervisory’ve only tested superficially, whether the project corresponds to the legate, says Roger dust.

going through the club

Now the critics are trying to obtain the document on a different path. Roger dust, and AL-Council Mischa Schiwow that supports the IG, joined the club a non-profit company is Neumünster (Association of GGN). Until 2012, the GGN was organized in this Association. In order to stand under the scrutiny of all members of the Association. About seven years ago, the Board requested that the Association into a Foundation to transform and to transfer the entire ownership of this. The Assembly agreed to. According to the extract from the commercial register, the Association had assets of 52 million francs and debts of 20 million.

Today, the eight-member Board of Trustees will decide on this possession. The club still exists. Its influence but he has lost. He is limited to organizing charitable events for the residents of the home.

dust and Schiwow are convinced: “members of the Association as we need to give the Foundation insight into the legacy.” A lawyer have confirmed this. Your rights are to claim the two to the General Assembly of the Association. This will take place this June.

in Addition, the IG Hof-acker has advertised in Public, for your concern. Supported by the tenant Association and the local AL, has collected the IG 3600 signatures against a crash, councillor Filippo Leutenegger (FDP) took the Petition in person. The Foundation’s Board of Directors wants to take the signatures yourself. In several letters he urges the Petitionäre to send the concerns, the postal service is not reliable.

“The foundations are not alone in the cantonal Foundation Supervisory and fiscal authorities accountable.”Dominique Jakob, Professor at the centre for Foundation law, University of Zurich

In a letter to the tenants, the Foundation writes: you have informed very early about the cancellation, the period of notice of three months suspended, and a counseling center for residents.

Otherwise, the GGN is more likely to be closed. The former club, and current Foundation President, Andreas Müller, an Economist who also advises professional foundations. At the request of the TA, he writes that the Foundation was held “in a responsible and future-oriented with your assets, deal”, just so you could survive in the long term. Müller stresses that the old-age home Aventine to be viable without subsidies. The Foundation must “provide” that this is working also in the future.

specific questions, Andreas Müller. Why keep the Foundation, the Legat to yourself? How much money would be earned by the GGN with the newly created settlement? The old – age and nursing home Aventine, for which the Foundation GGN to use the revenue from the new settlement will, makes a modest profit last year according to the annual report nearly 280’000 Swiss francs. The Foundation with the Hofacker-settlement annually about 400’000 Swiss francs is. Why does she need more money? All of these questions would relate to “internal, strategic and operational Considerations,” writes Andreas Müller. Not for the Public.

a Private non-profit foundations such as the GGN do not have to justify to the public, although the state is exempt from tax liability. “You are not alone in the cantonal Foundation Supervisory and fiscal authorities accountable,” says Dominique Jakob, Professor at the centre for Foundation law at the University of Zurich. Many foundations would give today, but more transparent than required by law. To do this, you will publish figures, for example, business. The disclosure of a Legate does not belong necessarily to such a strategy, says Jacob.

Some fight

The Hofacker-tenants and tenants in order to go different with the new construction plans. Some have already found something New and moved away, tell tenants. Others are clueless, especially the Elderly, living for decades in the hofackerstrasse. Third parties would behave in a quiet, probably hoping to get an apartment in a new building project. And finally, there are those like Roger dust and Erika Wey, the fight.

they Both stress that you just own cheap apartment. “If I had to take off as a pawn sacrifice, that would be fine,” says dust. He wanted to reach, above all, that affordable housing will stay in the district.

The tenants deny that the almost 90-year-old settlement was so dilapidated, that you can’t rehabilitate. Although the Foundation has made mostly only the Necessary, tell long-standing residents. The lines, however, were renewed. “There is no reason for the houses to tear down,” says Roger dust. This time, he is convinced, to leave the Zurich housing market-the classics are still staying.

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Created: 04.04.2019, 21:26 PM