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Many refugees from Ukraine have to leave their homes in the Erzgebirge district. There is an emergency shelter for “extreme emergencies”.
Erzgebirgskreis – In the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, the rental contracts of more than a thousand Ukrainian refugees are expiring. This is because they were housed in so-called guaranteed apartments, which are actually intended for asylum seekers. A letter from the district administration is now calling on the Ukrainians to look for housing. Receiving citizen’s allowance not only entails rights, but also obligations, said district administrator Rico Anton (CDU).
Erzgebirgskreis: Ukrainians have to find their own apartment within a very short time
In their homeland, the Ukraine Wara return is out of the question. In the Erzgebirge district, around a thousand Ukrainian refugees must now leave their temporary homes and look for a new apartment. A letter from the district administration in mid-May had asked them to vacate their apartments, as MDR Saxony reported. The refugees were initially accommodated in the asylum apartments without any red tape, it was said. Those affected were informed transparently from the outset that this was only temporary accommodation.
Now, according to its own statements, the district urgently needs these accommodations for asylum seekers. “The apartments are so-called guaranteed apartments, i.e. apartments that the district has rented and that fall under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act. This does not apply to the Ukrainians. They are recipients of citizen’s allowance and are encouraged to look for an apartment on the free housing market,” said the district administrator of the Erzgebirge district, Anton Rico, in an interview with MDR Saxony with.
District office increases pressure on Ukrainian refugees: Four weeks time
A total of 1,700 people from Ukraine were originally affected, but 40 percent have already found a new place to live. There are now “around 1,000 left, and we now have to increase the pressure on them,” Rico continued. The district administration now wants to make these apartments available again to those refugees who are not allowed to look for their own apartment because they fall under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act. But the Ukrainians are not completely on their own in the search: In Johanngeorgenstadt, the municipal housing company is helping those affected.
Anyone who does not find a new place to live within the four weeks as required can hope for leniency. If someone can prove, for example, that they will not be able to move into their new apartment for two months, “then we will be accommodating,” explained District Administrator Rico. Emergency accommodation is also being created, for example in a gymnasium. “We are trying everything to prevent homelessness. In extreme emergencies, we have emergency accommodation where temporary accommodation is possible,” said Anton Rico.
Recently, Ukrainian refugees also received mail from Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD). In a letter, the minister called on the often highly qualified refugees from Ukraine to take up work.
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