{"id":6341,"date":"2020-04-09T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2020-04-09T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:41:17","slug":"menschenleben-schuetzen-massenunterkuenfte-aufloesen-wohnungen-statt-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/menschenleben-schuetzen-massenunterkuenfte-aufloesen-wohnungen-statt-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> <strong>Protect Human Lives! Dissolve Mass Accommodation!<\/strong><\/p> <!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Flats Instead Of Lagers!<\/strong><\/p> <!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n<strong>Protect Human Lives! Dissolve Mass Accommodation!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flats Instead Of\nLagers!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shared Press Release by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hinter Z\u00e4unen - Gefl\u00fcchtete und Wohnungslose in Zeiten von #Corona\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHboyG-fTJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We\u2019ll Come United Berlin und Brandenburg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fl\u00fcchtlingsrat Berlin e.V.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>AK Wohnungsnot<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Unter Druck e.V.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Women in Exile e.V.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Selbstvertretung wohnungsloser Menschen \/<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wohnungslosentreffen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wohnungslosenparlament<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>B\u00fcndnis solidarische Stadt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Armutsnetzwerk e.V.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berlin, 7. April 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While contact is\nrestricted by numerous measures for protection against the Corona\nVirus, tens of thousands of people in Berlin live in shelters for\nrefugees and homeless people, cramped together in multi-bed rooms and\nshared facilities like bathrooms and kitchens. At least 30,000\nhomeless have been placed in precarious accommodation, often without\nany social care or quality standards, by the district offices\naccording to the ASOG, and a further 20,0002 live in collective\naccommodation run by the State Office for Refugee Affairs (LAF) with\nup to 500 residents per shelter. In this situation, it is impossible\nto comply with contact and distance prohibitions. In addition, there\nare several thousand homeless people living on the streets, who are\nhardly able to protect themselves from the virus. On the other hand,\nalmost all 150,000 beds in the 800 hotels and accommodation\nfacilities in Berlin are currently empty, and there are also numerous\nholiday apartments and furnished &#8220;business apartments&#8221; that\nare usually rented on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We demand the\nimmediate housing of all homeless people in flats and holiday or\nbusiness apartments and the dissolution of mass accommodation where\nprotection against infection is not possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our demands:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safe and decent\nliving instead of homelessness and collective accommodation &#8211;\nimmediate measures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homeless people always belong to the so-called risk groups due to the living conditions on the streets, their situation has been considerably aggravated by the corona pandemic: Berlin emergency overnight shelters were closed or the number of beds reduced.  Day care facilities for the homeless closed, too. The supply of food is partly shifted to the streets, the existing supply structure is crumbling. For people on the street, this is an enormous physical and psychological burden.The 350 places recently created at two locations in Berlin for homeless people are far from sufficient for the 2000 people who were recently counted in Berlin living visibly on the streets. The corona virus can spread quickly in the emergency shelters of the &#8220;<em>K\u00e4ltehilfe<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; they are a danger to those affected and everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p>Many people with\nsevere pre-disorders, older people and pregnant women as well as\nfamilies with children live in accommodation for the homeless and\nrefugees. Strangers have to share a room. In accommodations with\nshared sanitary facilities and kitchens, the necessary hygiene and\nadherence to distance rules are not possible and the risk of\ninfection is considerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the current situation in Berlin, many holiday apartments, pensions, business apartments and hotel rooms are vacant. There is no shortage of self-contained housing units. There are individual sanitary facilities and the possibility of individual quarantines. Through a local network of gastronomic enterprises, people in accommodation without cooking facilities or in quarantine could be provided with food and at the same time the local structures could be supported. Especially in times of a pandemic, we see it as a social obligation to create conditions for ALL people that reduce the risk of infection. We call on the operators of hotels, holiday apartments and business apartments to show solidarity and make a contribution to overcoming the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call on the\nSenate to take immediate action by renting vacant hotel rooms,\nholiday apartments and business apartments for the homeless, for\npeople at risk and for people in mass and collective accommodation\nwithout private bathrooms, thus initiating the end of mass\naccommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provide reliable\ninformation and advice, access to WLAN and infection protection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Collective shelters\noffer a roof over ones head, but apart from a lack of protection\nagainst the spread of the virus, there is little reliable protection\nfor the residents. Refugees report that in many shelters they only\nwork with bans instead of information. Information and education from\nhealth authorities is sometimes completely absent. Quarantine\nmeasures were implemented in a number of shelters. The residents were\nleft in the dark about the reason and duration of the quarantine.\nThere was no protective equipment such as face masks and\ndisinfectants for either staff or residents. The people remained\nalone with their fears and questions. Due to the lack of WLAN in the\nresidents&#8217; rooms, many people are unable to access information and\neducation or communicate with employers and authorities. The Internet\nvolume of mobile phone contracts often does not reach the end of the\nmonth. In addition, the residents are currently increasingly\ndepending on the mercy of the sometimes strict power structures of\nthe collective accommodations due to visitation bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call on the\nSenate to provide up-to-date information about the corona virus and\nits effects on everyday life in all necessary languages online and to\nopen up WLAN access points (e.g. from hotels, authorities, schools)\navailable on the street so that ALL people have free access to\ninformation. In addition, information access must be created for\npeople without a smartphone or telephone. In the accommodations,\naccess to a powerful WLAN must be available in all living areas. This\nis also a prerequisite for the participation of students in digital\nlessons and for contact with authorities. Disinfectants and\nprotective clothing must be available to residents and staff in the\naccommodation at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organize individual quarantines instead of quarantine for entire shelters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If people in a mass\naccommodation have tested positive for corona, it is the\nresponsibility of the district medical officer to order appropriate\nquarantine measures. A quarantine is very stressful for the people\nconcerned. Priority must be given to housing sick persons and their\nidentified contact persons separately in individual quarantine\napartments. A common quarantine for all inhabitants of a mass\naccommodation is irresponsible because it only increases the danger\nfor all. Instead, it is necessary to transfer the persons\nindividually to accommodation with an apartment structure and to\nholiday apartments etc., where individual quarantines can be\nimplemented appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call on the\nSenate to avoid quarantines for entire collective accommodations at\nall costs and to instruct the districts to implement quarantines for\nresidents individually by moving them to suitable apartments or\naccommodations with an apartment structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guarantee psychological support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The risk of\nre-traumatisation due to the threat of the corona virus is high for\nmany refugees. There is a lack of retreat and privacy in collective\nshelters, especially for families. The already difficult access to\npsychological counselling in the language of origin is almost\ncompletely blocked by the corona pandemic. Many homeless people also\nsuffer from mental illnesses such as depression. The pandemic\nincreases insecurity, feelings of fear and solidifies social\nmarginalization. A quarantine in a confined space is an extremely\nstressful and frightening situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We demand the\nprovision of psychological counselling in the languages of origin by\ntelephone and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apartments instead of camps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For reasons of\nprotection against infection and to enable the homeless and refugees\nto lead a self-determined life, they should be accommodated primarily\nin flats rather than in emergency shelters and collective\naccommodation. A WBS is to be issued as a matter of urgency to those\nwho have lost their homes or who meet the income limits for the\nWohnberechtigungsschein (WBS), as well as to asylum seekers,\ntolerated and recognised refugees in collective accommodation. The\nobligation to live in a refugee shelter is to be abolished (cf. \u00a7 49\nPara. 2 AsylG). On the basis of the WBS with urgency, vacant and new\nflats of the Land Berlin as well as social housing are to be\nallocated first to homeless persons, accommodated homeless persons\nand refugees from collective shelters (real housing first instead of\nbuilding and occupying more and more new collective shelters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closure of mass\nhousing, access to housing for ALL and nationwide access to\ninformation and education through free WLAN for all is necessary to\ncontain the Corona pandemic and future pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the problems\nmentioned above will be solved or reduced by moving away from mass\nhousing and towards the possibility for all people to live in flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll Come United Berlin Brandenburg, Tel. 0163 1601 783<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fl\u00fcchtlingsrat Berlin, buero@fluechtlingsrat-berlin.de, Tel. 030\n224 76 311 (ggf. lange klingeln lassen wegen Weiterleitung in das\nHome Office)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selbstvertretung wohnungsloser Menschen,\nstefan.schneider@wohnungslosentreffen.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#WohnungStattLager #LeaveNoOneBehind #NoLager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von https:\/\/youtu.be\/fHboyG-fTJU We\u2019ll Come United Berlin und Brandenburg Fl\u00fcchtlingsrat Berlin e.V. AK Wohnungsnot Unter Druck e.V. Women in Exile e.V. Selbstvertretung wohnungsloser Menschen \/ Wohnungslosentreffen Wohnungslosenparlament B\u00fcndnis solidarische Stadt Armutsnetzwerk e.V. Berlin, 7. April 2020 Menschenleben sch\u00fctzen! Massenunterk\u00fcnfte aufl\u00f6sen! Wohnungen statt Lager! W\u00e4hrend zahlreiche Ma\u00dfnahmen zur Kontaktbeschr\u00e4nkung zum Schutz vor dem Coronavirus verordnet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}