German Government Confiscates Private Dwellings on Behalf of Refugees

At what point do the German people rebel?

Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years.

City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015, when Merkel opened German borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, however, the city is expropriating residential property units owned by private citizens.

In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently confiscated six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center. The units, which are owned by a private landlord, are in need of repair and have been vacant since 2012. A trustee appointed by the city is now renovating the properties and will rent them — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.

Next step: Germans will be kicked out into the snow so that welfare colonists from terrorist breeding grounds can live in their homes.

Meanwhile, the housing shortage in Hamburg gets ever worse because the socialist government will not issue sufficient building permits, and because rental caps prevent owners from recouping costs — which is presumably why the landlord didn’t renovate the units mentioned above.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and Cryin’ Chuck U.