Uni vs. Refugee accommodation: dispute over construction plan in Berlin

Uni vs. Refugee accommodation: dispute over construction plan in Berlin

The planned erection of a container village for 260 refugees on a fallow unibles in Berlin-Dahlem ensures controversy. Free University of Berlin, whose site is intended for research and teaching, shows strong resistance to the Senate plans for the accommodation of migrants. It is criticized that the university management was not included in the decision -making process and learned from the Senate plans from the newspaper.

The university emphasizes its willingness to support refugees, although it has provided short -term accommodation in the past. However, the area on which the container village is planned is urgently needed for your own construction projects. The university proposes to use empty buildings of the Federal Real Estate District Buildings instead, which were previously used for the accommodation of refugees.

The Senate decided at the end of March the establishment of 16 other container villages in order to accommodate the acute need for refugees. Despite initial resistance and the determination that further locations are needed, the Senate plans are pushing for the creation of emergency shelters on various urban areas. The planned distribution of container villages in the eastern districts of Berlin ensures that the imbalance is intensified in the accommodation of refugees.

Criticism on the Internet at the Free University of Berlin ignites the supposed incoherence between its cosmopolitan facade and the resistance to the accommodation of refugees. Some users mock and accuse the university of being tolerant on other social issues, but to act intolerant and racist in refugee accommodation. The controversy around the planned container village on the universe area in Berlin-Dahlem illustrates the tensions between the need for living space for refugees and the interests of other institutions and citizens in the city.