A family in Berlin has been searching for six years. - No possibility of winning in the housing raffle.
Mark Krüger, a former German soldier who works as a janitor and TikToker, and his partner Anna Gimmler (37) have been living in a cramped, two-room 65 square meter apartment on Sterndamm in the Schöneweide district of Berlin for 13 years with their three children (6, 13, 17) and a dog. They've been searching for a larger home since Anna became pregnant with their youngest child, six years ago. The apartment's rent, gas, and electricity costs total 1450 euros, and it desperately needs renovation.
Two and a half years ago, they stumbled upon a new building project with 135 new apartments by the state-owned housing association "Stadt und Land." The project offered a four-room apartment measuring 87 square meters for 873.45 euros. Krüger and Gimmler had already expressed their interest in the apartments before construction began. Unfortunately, they didn't win the lottery.
The rejection stated the family was not included in the random selection, and the letting process was over. Krüger is frustrated, stating, "The lottery process is unfair. It's a free-for-all. Not even the prerequisites are checked."
"Stadt und Land" justifies the housing lottery: "We have up to 400 applicants per apartment. Therefore, we use a digital random generator to randomly select applicants and invite them to view apartments."
Regardless, this didn't help Krüger and his family. "We just want to move out of this place. We need to find out what comes next."
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Source: symclub.org
