A landlord in the German city of Dresden has evicted native German tenants, ostensibly because the building was to be demolished, but in reality because their quarters were needed for migrants.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from the Austrian news portal Der Status:

Phony demolition: German tenants forced to make room for asylum seekers

“We have room”: With such empty catchphrases, the self proclaimed ‘better humans’ advertised for the ongoing mass-scale influx of asylum seekers. The distribution battle continues to become more intense by the minute in Germany’s housing crisis. And it looks as if landlords in Dresden have now gone the extra mile: Dresden tenants were lured to leave their four walls behind under the scam that their houses were marked for demolition. And then a few months later, during which the houses remained empty and untouched, asylum seekers are preparing to move in.

Demolition scam: Germans out, asylum seekers in

In the truest sense of the concept, the Kleinschachwitz district in the city of Dresden is now practicing actual population exchange. At the rental property on the Johannes-Brahms-Strasse, all of the current tenants were forced to move out, effective the end of February 2023. The reason, and explanation, at the time was as follows: “It is planned to demolish the rental property due to its age, and due to its bad structural condition — and compared to common housing conditions — it has been decided to demolish the property and replace it with a new and bigger apartment building. This, however, will only be possible under the circumstance that all existing rental contracts be terminated.” As an alternative, redevelopment and renovation would be too expensive.

But after months of remaining empty, the house remains standing. One small enquiry by the city faction o9f the AfD [Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany] has now found out that to this day no demolition was ever registered or planned. Additionally, the group “Free Saxons” were able to find out that the placement of asylum seekers was the true plan, so they organized a public protest against it. The AfD suspected that the owner cleared the house of its tenants “under false pretenses”, since asylum seekers are more lucrative tenants — and the question was raised whether the city administration were possibly even privy to this plan.

This is the letter with which previous tenants were shown the door:

[Image of letter to tenants of Johannes-Brahms-Strasse]

Text that is circled in red:

“The existing plan is to demolish the rental property due to its age and its bad structural condition in order to replace it with a new, bigger apartment building. This, however, will only be possible under the circumstance that all existing rental contracts be terminated.

“The only alternative of redevelopment and renovation was taken into consideration but proportionally, it would be more expensive than to tear down the entire building and rebuild. Also the new building will be considerably larger than the existing structure…”

AfD harshly criticizes procedure

No matter how you look at it: The procedure was scandalous. On one hand, the tenants who were thrown out of their homes under the ruse that tenancies would interfere with the “proportionate economic utilization” of the property. On the other hand, however, the asylum seekers are moved into a property that is now officially “in bad structural condition,” and have become “human capital” in the truest sense of the word for the Berlin corporation that owns the building. The AfD faction has prompted the city of Dresden to examine the cancellation of rental contracts with the tenants, and recommends that the former tenants to tale legal action.

It appears that as of yet there is no exact moving date for the asylum seekers. According to AfD, it “hasn’t been determined whether the apartments will accommodate solo-traveling young men or families, or even from which countries they originate.” The only thing for sure is that chief city mayor Dirk Hilbert (FDP) and the “open-door immigration-happy aldermen of the all-parties” — the Greens are the strongest faction — are rigorously moving forward in their single-minded pursuit of their “uncontrolled policy of welfare-migration” agenda. The party continuously reminds its citizens of the upcoming communal- and state elections in the coming year, in which they intend on putting an end to “this insanity and plan on bringing a change of course in policy”.

Throwing out tenants for the sake of housing asylum seekers not a single incident

One thing is for sure: The incident in Dresden is not a single incident. A few months ago, Der Status reported on a scandalous letter from the Baden-Württemberg city of Lörrach, in which German tenants were evicted from communal apartments for the sake of Ukrainian migrants. And shortly thereafter, the Berlin church charity foundation even planned to put 100 senior citizens in the street and instead house asylum seekers on their property because it was determined that it was financially far more lucrative.

In the face of recent escalations in the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s reasonable to expect such events to occur even more often. A large percentage of refugees from the Gaza Strip fleeing as a consequence of Israel’s retaliation against Hamas attacks are expected to seek asylum in Germany. After Der Status last week uncovered the fact that the first Palestinians have already left Gaza, even the EU finally conceded that there is danger in a mega-influx of asylum seekers from Gaza.