A lot of suffering, little hope: pensioner urgently is looking for barrier -free apartment

A lot of suffering, little hope: pensioner urgently is looking for barrier -free apartment

The housing shortage in Germany has achieved an alarming dimension, as the fate of Anna R. and Hans Liebanz show. The 78-year-old pensioner from Bad Tölz, who urgently is looking for an affordable and barrier-free apartment, lives in constant fear of landing on the street. Loud Mercury Anna has decades of setbacks and physical suffering. Due to its health impairments, including arthrosis and 80 percent disability, it is increasingly falling into homelessness. Although she has been looking for support from Caritas for years and asks for social housing, she does not get a living permit because her income is minimally above the limit.

The situation is similar with Hans Liebanz, a 61-year-old from Ulm, whose dreams have burst from their own house in need of renovation due to financial difficulties and personal setbacks. After his divorce and a job loss during Corona pandemic, he finally lived on the street and turned to Caritas how Swabian reported. The increasing number of homeless people, around 500 in Ulm alone, is worrying. The city administration admits that the situation is tense and the limited capacities in emergency shelters often are often not sufficient to meet the need.

Increasing housing shortage in Germany

The stories of these two people are exemplary for the alarming housing shortage in Germany, which has existed for years, but has dramatically intensified recently. Both Anna and Hans are the victims of a system that hardly offers a perspective financially disadvantaged and health -limited people. Despite their efforts for support, the hurdles they have to overcome seem almost insurmountable, while despair increases and hope for their own apartment is increasingly waning.