I don't remember there being anything like that back then (when I was growing up here from 1989), but maybe it wasn't talked about.
Do you have any personal experience of this issue or do you work with or in the authorities?
It could also be that I have an inadequate picture of the situation. Thank you very much.
From the article:
Ten families currently live in the accommodation at Irchelpark. All four shelters together offer space for around 50 families. Kobel says: "Basically, we are designed in such a way that we can always take in someone else in an emergency." Sometimes they have to accommodate a family on the same day.
None of the families living in the simple rooms have chosen this. They all once had a flat in the city of Zurich before they lost it for various reasons: Because their fixed-term tenancy agreement expired, because they received notice to quit or because the family failed to pay the rent. What they all have in common is the housing shortage in Zurich.
Official website of the city of Zurich on this topic:
by BezugssystemCH1903
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Hate that it’s needed, love that it exists
You mean….. homeless shelters?
They exist in most modern nations.
great report, ❤️SRF
My in-laws stayed in one when they had to evacuate their building due to a landslide behind it. They eventually moved out and bought another apartment. Their old building is still uninhabitable, 7 years later.
Yeah in the US where I grew up the homeless shelter was always overcrowded and never had enough beds for everyone. I volunteered at a day shelter with po boxes for mail but people had all kinds of health problems, one guy had lost fingers to frost bite, lots of alcoholism, etc.
In some cantons they simplify live in the bunkers of the Civil Protection
Yeah the housing/rental market is absolutely fine, how long until they are full as well and have to turn down people? sooner then later this will be reality. Delusion all around.
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