Real Estate: With These Tricks, Owners Push Out Their Tenants
The city of Frankfurt has created a one-of-a-kind construct nationwide: With the Mieterschutz (tenants protection) department, it advises threatened residential communities against sometimes perfidious methods used by landlords.
Kai Schönbach, a lawyer, leads the Tenant Protection unit at the Frankfurt Office for Housing Affairs. From his 12th-floor balcony, he has a view of the city, but his work focuses on advising housing communities threatened with displacement due to rising rents, renovations, or conversions. The Frankfurt city government established the unit seven years ago, a unique municipal institution in Germany, to address the growing problem of displacement in the country's housing market. Schönbach's role involves informing tenants of their options to resist eviction.
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