German Homeless Population Explodes By One-Third In 2016 As Migrant Crisis Takes Its Toll | Zero Hedge
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# German Homeless Population Explodes By One-Third In 2016 As Migrant Crisis Takes Its Toll

by Tyler Durden
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According to a recent estimate published by the Federal Association for Assistance for the Homeless, the number of homeless people living on Germany’s streets has risen by 33% in a matter of just a couple of years, to 52,000. Meanwhile, as The Local notes, the number of Germans who can't afford their own home and have been forced to rely on the generosity of family and friends for a place to sleep every night has also risen a staggering 26%, to over 400,000 people.

> In 2016 an estimated 52,000 people were living on German streets, an increase of a third on the 39,000 people who were living rough in 2014.

> The report also claims that the overall number of people in Germany who don’t have their own home has risen sharply, from 335,000 in 2014 to 422,000 last year.

> Most of the people who don’t have their own homes live in collective accommodation or have to rely on the charity of partners or family.

Of course, German officials have offered up a wide range of potential explanations for the country's exploding homelessness crisis, with Thomas Specht, head of the Federal Association for Assistance for the Homeless, blaming restricted housing supply, rising rents and stagnant wages.

> “The numbers presented today on homelessness are shocking,” said Ulrike Mascher, President of the VdK social association.

> “In our view this proves that ever more people are unable to pay their rents because of low wages and over-indebtedness.”

> Thomas Specht, head of the Federal Association for Assistance for the Homeless, said that rising rents were just one cause of the negative development.

> He pointed out that since 1990 the number of council flats had dropped by 60 percent to 1.2 million, because local councils had sold off many properties to private investors.

> “The authorities have lost control of the stock of affordable housing,” he said

That said, others have pointed the finger at Angela Merkel's "Open Doors" policy which admitted nearly one million refugees from Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other war zones in 2015, a five-fold increase over the previous year.

> An increasing number of the people living on German streets are migrants from eastern Europe. Specht said however that although migration had put pressure on facilities for the homeless, it was by no means the only factor.

> Karin Kühn, chairwoman of BAG Help for the Homeless, demanded immediate action from the government.

Of course, the influx of migrants became a political hot topic in recent elections after the newly welcomed refugees repaid Merkel for her 'openness' by committing 142,500 crimes during the first six months of 2016, including several high-profile sexual assaults.

Unfortunately, while the public backlash finally convinced Merkel that Germany could not take on all of the world's problems, resulting in a decision to cap future refugees admittances at 200,000 per year (something we discussed here: Germany's "Open Doors" Are Closing: Merkel Seeks New Limits On Refugees)...

> The bloc agreed to limit to 200,000 annually the number of people allowed to enter Germany for humanitarian reasons. The conservatives pledged at the same time that people wouldn’t be turned back at the German border, expressing their support for the right to seek asylum in Germany and for the Geneva refugee convention, which states that countries should give protection to those who flee war and expulsion, and those who are politically persecuted.

> “We continue with our efforts to permanently reduce the number of people fleeing to Germany and Europe in order to prevent a repeat of the situation such as in 2015” when Germany took in 890,000 asylum seekers, Ms. Merkel said Monday, presenting the agreement to reporters.

> She said the parties agreed on measures that will ensure that the total number of admissions won’t exceed 200,000 people a year. These include dealing with newcomers seeking asylum in Germany in centralized centers where their claims will be quickly decided. Rejected asylum seekers will then be rapidly deported back to their home countries. With this move, the parties hope to speed up asylum proceedings and increase the number of deportations.

> The limit of allowing up to 200,000 migrants entering the country every year could be amended by the German Parliament if an international crisis warrants it, the compromise said.

> The stunning capitulation follows an embarrassing showing by Merkel’s Christian Democrats during September’s federal elections. While the party again received the largest share of the vote, its support declined by more than 8% from the prior election in Merkel’s worst-ever performance. Meanwhile, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party secured an unprecedented 13% of the vote, enough for it to earn representative in parliament – the first time a far-right party had been voted into Germany’s parliament since World War II.

...Merkel's epiphany apparently didn't come quickly enough to stave off a housing crisis that is now pushing German citizens onto the streets in record numbers.

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Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 5:04 AM

Uncle Adolf, we forgive you. You tried your best.

Looney Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 5:06 AM

Here’s something Merkel should take credit for…

According to Bild, (Google-translated) “a young man allegedly committed a sexual assault on a pony in Görlitzer Park.

He approached the animal on Friday, at about 3 pm. A babysitter became aware of the "traumatizing" incident in the local petting zoo and immediately took a picture of the disgusting act. Shortly afterwards, she informed the staff.

The man was apprehended and fined for violating the Animal Welfare Act and "causing public nuisance through sexual acts". The animal torturer is said to be a 23-year-old native Syrian.”

Looney

JohnGaltUk Looney Nov 15, 2017 5:20 AM

Was the pony good looking? Got any pics.

myne JohnGaltUk Nov 15, 2017 6:03 AM

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rlk6MLZJz5c/Tx9Y7Dc-hJI/AAAAAAAACAQ/ZeRjN_n7ne...

JohnGaltUk myne Nov 15, 2017 6:41 AM

I would jump that too. LOL

wildbad JohnGaltUk Nov 15, 2017 6:52 AM

nice job Angie...you too Soros

Never One Roach wildbad Nov 15, 2017 7:36 AM

"If you want to keep your home, you can keep your home. I promise!"

~ Angela merkel

Dontblamethegoat Looney Nov 15, 2017 5:53 AM

Must be a precedent for it somewhere in the Quran ... or maybe the guy mistook the pony for a goat ... gotta love diversity though ...

GuyJeans Dontblamethegoat Nov 15, 2017 6:26 AM
[He is] Creator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you from yourselves, mates, and among the cattle, mates; He multiplies you thereby. There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing. Sura 42:11

JohnGaltUk Dontblamethegoat Nov 15, 2017 6:40 AM

He just stuck some horns on its head and pretended.

BandGap JohnGaltUk Nov 15, 2017 6:51 AM

Like I always told the kids "with an imagination you can do anything". Not quite what I had in mind.

are we there yet Looney Nov 15, 2017 5:56 AM

The zoo needs to include more goats for Syrians. I read a story of a prostitute who had very few standards except that she would not service an Arab because so many of them are so grose.

yogibear Looney Nov 15, 2017 7:24 AM

Merkel was successful on taking down Germany.

Globalist plan of subduing the west and making China the leader is succeeding.

_RRR_ Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 5:07 AM

don't praise them murderers that much, you dumb f*ck. Next time it could be your throat

Dindu Nuffins _RRR_ Nov 15, 2017 5:20 AM

That made no sense at all. Everyone on all sides in WW2 was murdering civilians with zest and aplomb. Hitler at least offered peace several times to Britain and France, including airdropping leaflets entitled "Last Appeal to Reason" on Aug 2nd 1940 over London.

_RRR_ Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 5:28 AM

when you kill 4 out of 10 and offer peace to the remaining 6 to gain strenght to kill them later, only a very foolish being would agree

Either you didn't pay attention in history class or your potential for decisions in deal making is limited

Dindu Nuffins _RRR_ Nov 15, 2017 6:01 AM

August 2nd 1940 was the peace offer.

September 1940 was when the London Blitz began.

What are you chimping about when you say 4 out of 10 had been killed already? The only thing that had happened by August 1940 was Hitler letting the British evacuate Dunkirk. There were no mass casualties yet, chimpy.

fleur de lis Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 6:37 AM

The Allies had been firebombing German cities for months before the London blitz began.

That is always conveniently left out of "history" books.

That was why the leaflets were dropped.

The Allies were attacking German cities knowing fully well how the Germans would eventually respond.

But since the media were under the complete control of the warmanogers, only news of the German attacks reached American readers.

It was another way to prep Americans for joining a war that had nothing to do with us.

Nothing has changed for tha better and indeed has only grown worse.

BandGap fleur de lis Nov 15, 2017 6:56 AM

Citation, please.

The allies were mainly England and France, and France was taken out at that point. England didn't firebomb anyone before the blitz. They were short of pilots and planes and all of their efforts went to making Hurricanes and Spitfires while training pilots as fast as they could.

America didn't join the war until about a year and a half later. Even the Lend/Lease Program wasn't yet started with England.

You're a complete idiot.

fleur de lis BandGap Nov 15, 2017 7:12 AM

Sorry, I cannot find that for you but I do remember reading it somewhere.

So you can believe it or not as you please.

The mountains of lies that have been promoted about both wars are so horrific that there is no official story that is beyond questioning.

There is no point in thinking that that partcular story is true when so many others are surfacing as lies one after the other.

BandGap fleur de lis Nov 15, 2017 7:28 AM

Your comment is so stupid I don't believe you CAN read.

Dindu Nuffins BandGap Nov 15, 2017 7:16 AM

Man, time to hang it up when even cursory inspection of wikipedia is against you:

In June, attacks were made on Dortmund, Mannheim, Frankfurt and Bochum.[101]

Bloody Fkn Muppet fleur de lis Nov 15, 2017 6:56 AM

America did better out of WWII than any other country, supplying the Allies and Nazis with arms to kill each other, then becoming the factory of the world after because Europe was in ruin.

BandGap Bloody Fkn Muppet Nov 15, 2017 7:06 AM

Is it Make Stupid Shit Up Day?

BandGap Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 6:58 AM

You are also an idiot.

It's called "reading", give it a try.

Dindu Nuffins BandGap Nov 15, 2017 7:07 AM

Not a counter-argument. Try facts instead of supercilious posturing.

BandGap Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 7:15 AM

I don't argue with morons who don't know what they are talking about. I will agree that the "4 ut of 10" comment wasn't correct, but the assertion that Hitler wanted peace because he was a good soul at heart is pure nonsense. He wanted England to accept peace so he could turn his armies east, something he had been plotting since at least the mid 1930s.

One more note, the Germans actually started the attacks on civilians as a way to break England's will. Yes, the British had inadvertantly bombed civilian areas but this was not part of their strategy.

Again, read.

Dindu Nuffins BandGap Nov 15, 2017 7:27 AM

Given that communist Antifa had already tried a revolt in 1919 with support from Soviet Russia and continued to be suported by Jewish Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia, yes, the East was where Hitler actually wanted to fight. So what? Are you a marxist?

No leader should be a perfectly good soul to outgroups that intend no good for his own people. That said, he definitely didn't want to invade the entire world, which is constantly imputed to him. The "Man in the High Castle" is exactly this over-the-top "You'd be speaking German if we lost!" hysteria. It's important to know that Hitler had defined goals that did not involve Western Europe, rather than making him a convenient propaganda tool for conquering Western Europe by different means on the sly.

ThuleNord Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 6:08 AM

How can homelessness be increasing due to immigrants? Merkel promised they were all engineers and scientists.

Lordflin Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 7:37 AM

My first wife was Jewish... dead now some 30+ years, beautiful girl, and one of the kindest, most generous human beings I have ever known.

Her mother claims to have lost all but her brother in a Nazi concentration camp... oddly enough her mother's brother claimed the same thing. I remember one of her stories very clearly. The Jews were in a row, on their knees with their hands splayed out in front of them (this was on a ship's deck as she was being transported to another camp) as an officer walked down the line with a pistol gripped in one hand. Whenever he came accross someone whos hands were in his opinion too far out in front he put a bullet in their heads.

Her father claims to have fought in the Polish underground after losing his entire family to the Nazis.

My inlaws were sad, bitter people whos souls had been crushed... but of couse this was all for show, as none of the stories they regaled me with ever took place. The holocaust was all a myth, and, as you so rightly pointed out, the Nazis were just a bunch of hard working folks doing the best they knew how for their country.

I often wondered how those people managed to keep that conspiracy going all those years after the war.

Kina Nov 15, 2017 5:09 AM

Yup - Europe on its way to becoming a radical muslim cesspit.

And thats the plan.

Destroy national and individual identy, then wipe out your country from within with this poison.

How fucking amazing it will be that China, South Korea, Japan, Russia will be the last bastions of civilised society on this planet not infeccted by a Soros like plague.

fleur de lis Kina Nov 15, 2017 6:50 AM

Yep, and it was interesting how some moron Congresswoman was yamering on to Sessions about the fearsome white identity movement instead of focusing on matters of real concern.

Listening to that moron one would think that hundreds of millions had not already been spent on every imaginable agency, that wild rioting never happened, that statues had not been pulled down and property destroyed in a mob frenzy by hundreds more wandering unemployed morons, that ill read, poorly spoken, overrated teachers with a chip on the shoulder had been promoting Bolshevik identity lies.

The whole identity issue has morphed into some kind of alien presence that herds and feeds parasitic academia, dumb polititians, obnoxious, violent snowflakes, and MSM instigators.

And all of them are convinced that they are smart.

Matchless Kina Nov 15, 2017 6:56 AM

There's a few European countries not participating , Poland is one of them. Regarding China they have a huge Muslim population, mostly on the western part of the country boardering India, this is fact.

BandGap Kina Nov 15, 2017 7:04 AM

Not so fast there, George knows no borders, evil knows no bounds. It's just that China met him immediately and with force.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Features/China-up-close/Battle-erupts-between-Xi...

He's fucked around with both China and Russia.

http://grandupheaval.com/soros-puts-short-on-china/

RadioactiveRant Nov 15, 2017 5:13 AM

Fire up the gas chambers.

_RRR_ RadioactiveRant Nov 15, 2017 5:37 AM

can you test first? Please.

Robert Trip Nov 15, 2017 5:18 AM

The Fuhrer got rid of the bankers who had a stranglehold on his Nation and it's people, sucking the life blood out of the population and leaving them with no hope.

Once the bankers were shipped off to Palestine, Germany flourished and their beggar and out of control homeless issue were eliminated in the first year.

History can be a valuable teaching tool but you'll never read about this in an American history book available to students, printed and published by you know who.

Pity

charlewar Robert Trip Nov 15, 2017 5:33 AM

muslim filth collaborated with Nazis...now that filthy gutter scum infests the host.

_RRR_ Robert Trip Nov 15, 2017 5:35 AM

he didn't ship them to palestine, he killed them. Oh, you didn't know? Now you do. You could update your "history books", too.

Maybe in the future you offer a similar deal to those you don't like? How's that for some thinking on your side?

Dindu Nuffins _RRR_ Nov 15, 2017 5:50 AM

No one really knows how many Jews died in the so-called Holocaust. It could be 370 000 or it could be 5 million.

However, what is known for an absolute fact, even in official narratives, is that the alleged mass killings didn't begin until after the Wansee Conference of 1942, a meeting which is very poorly documented.

What this official assertion obliquely implies is that, before 1942, deportation was the standing policy of Nazi Germany. The exception proves the overall rule. It took a massive war and its cities being bombed into rubble by Allied bombers with massive German civilian casualties before even the most politically correct official narratives say that the policy changed from "get 'em out" to "fuck this shit, just get rid of 'em"

If Hitler really wanted to kill Jews, he could have started in 1934, when International Jews boycotted Germany and declared a war by all means on it.

Blue Steel 309 Dindu Nuffins Nov 15, 2017 6:43 AM

There is zero factual evidence of any jew "holocaust" in Germany.

Dindu Nuffins Robert Trip Nov 15, 2017 5:37 AM

You can't have a thriving culture of sexual depravity like 1920s Berlin, where transgenderism and homosexuality was first promoted by Magnus Hirschfeld, unless you have a steady stream of financially-broken young flesh willing to whore itself out to eat and pay bills.

Reminds me of the article published yesterday about Millenials resorting to prostitution and sugar daddies to pay off their student debts and consumeristic lifestyles, actually. Get 'em in debt, then get 'em in bed.

TheEndIsNear Nov 15, 2017 5:21 AM

Merkel and other so called "leaders" cannot possibly be as stupid as they seem, so what is their motivation for the insanity they are all wreaking on their, and our, populations? Wealth? Extortion? Blackmail?

The Shodge TheEndIsNear Nov 15, 2017 5:31 AM

It can only be self-hatred

Easyp TheEndIsNear Nov 15, 2017 5:36 AM

Stupid? Merkel is the moron with a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry who agreed to close Germany's Nuclear Power Plants in favour of burning coal when the renewables dont work. Needless to say most winters renewables do not even come close so Germany is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the EU.

Fireman Easyp Nov 15, 2017 6:41 AM

STASI "Erika", das Madchen, will soon be on the receivng end of a Maggie Thatcher style knife. Like the Clinton hag her Rothschild slash Soros days will soon be numbered.

fleur de lis Fireman Nov 15, 2017 6:56 AM

Yes but the damage is so extensive and irreversable that it would not matter if she got exiled to the DC Swamp today.

The only reason Merkel was put in that spot was to destroy Germany from within.

She has no children, therefore she has no concern for the future.

Her only concern is her bankbook.

Sandmann Easyp Nov 15, 2017 6:43 AM

Yes a Physics undergrad with a Chemistry doctorate ???? DDR Doctorates required a Thesis on Marxism-Leninism and noone can find Merkels

FreedomWriter Sandmann Nov 15, 2017 7:00 AM

And yes, elections do have consequences.

Bloody Fkn Muppet Sandmann Nov 15, 2017 7:04 AM

I heard she was born in Kenya.

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