In Cottbus, the Gebäudewirtschaft Cottbus (GWC) has called for so-called cultural managers to mediate in conflicts between domestic and foreign tenants in the city’s housing.
“The cultural hurdles are high. It needs ‘cultural managers’, which are nationwide in use, ” GWC CEO Torsten Kunze told regional daily the Lausitzer Rundschau. “The federal government should create such a possibility, because the city can not fulfil this task.”
Reasons for the demand are problems in several properties that belong to the GWC in Cottbus, Potsdam and Frankfurt/Oder. For example, old-established tenants have complained about disturbances of sleep and rubbish associated with new tenants from the Balkans and Syria.
“Of course there are problems when people come here from a foreign culture, where they receive a basic service, but have no work,” admitted Kunze. The foreigners stayed up late into the night and were loud.
The head of the GWC countered allegations that his company was bringing in too many foreigners in individual blocks of flats, thus promoting ghettos. The new tenants are distributed to individual properties. In doing so, a “refugee” commissioner will pay attention to a fair allocation.
The group has housed more than 1 000 asylum seekers in apartments in recent years.
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