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Witten, Deutschland, Sat, Oct 21 2006Against the abolishing of countries’ regulation on security of tenureParallel to the decision of selling LEG, after the 2005 elections conservatives and liberals agreed to abolish the country regulation on legal protection of tenants after condo-conversion. According to national law a landlord can quit a rental contract if s/he has an interest to occupy the house by him/herself or her/his relatives. In connection with the mass-conversion of rental housing into owner-occupied condominiums, after privatisations the right to fire a tenant causes a specific mass problem for the security of tenure.In case of a condo conversion, national law regulates rights that permits the tenant to be protected against an eviction for a period of three years after the first sale of the transformed flat. National law even allows the federated states to define longer protection periods for cities with special housing problems. The red-green government after long debates decided to set up a specific regulation for rental protection for most of the larger towns and cities. The period of protection after sale in Urbanazed Areas of NRW is 6 or 8 years. If the new government would implement the abolishment-plans, which again are not backed by any arguments, this would cause an intensification of the expulsion of tenants from their homes and another loss of affordable housing in NRW. In the summer of 2005, tenants in Ruhr District organized protests against the abolishing of the regulation. Within a short period of time 5000 signatures of protestors were collected and handed over to the housing ministers. In September 2005, tenants organized a protest-line around an affected neighbourhood in Gelsenkirchen. Knut Unger, MieterInnenverein Witten | |
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