"City of the tenants' Berlin Rising rents displace the poor

Figurative could the displacement at the edge of society to be: Rising
rents are forcing more and more Berliners support recipients, such as
age poor, immigrant families or single parents on low incomes the
outskirts of the city. The German Trade Union Federation (DGB) and
diakonia even speak of the emergence of ghettos of the needy.

Berlin needy people are being pushed to the edge of town.

Berlin in need of assistance have a housing problem: In recent years,
rents have risen dramatically in Germany's capital city, the
accommodation rates for Hartz IV recipients have however not changed
in the last six years. The communities need about 331 000 in Berlin,
which are dependent on support from the State, is now faced with the
problem that no longer adequate to the statutory amounts. The benefits
for accommodation and heating, which depends on the gross monthly rent
and number of household members has a ceiling that can not unite with
the current rents. The rising heating costs have a negative effect on
the already critical situation.

Needy have to move - and are discriminated against in housing

The consequence of the misery is that many needy Berlin, including
many families are now forced to leave their ancestral home. 1200,
there were communities of need in 2010, according to DGB 50 percent
more than last year! In order to find affordable housing, the parties
must now move to the outskirts of the city unattractive. Moreover,
according to the DGB is increasingly a discrimination of migrants and
older people with housing recognizable. The situation was no longer as
acceptable.

DGB and diakonia are alert and call for a significant increase in
heating costs. Second, the public housing companies to stand in the
social responsibility to offer more affordable housing. It was going
so DGB chairman Doro Zinke in a press release, the housing is not just
a roof over their heads, but also about quality of life: "Where it
comes down to human dignity, we must not let hundreds of thousands in
the city in the lurch." Diakonia Director Susanne Kahl Passoth adds:
"This is how getto similar districts. The entire urban fabric of
society falls into a corrective no longer lopsided. " Currently sits a
Senate internal working group to review the ordinance for the cost of
accommodation, a result is expected shortly.