Cologne - Cologne, increasing their rent can not pay more - delay, termination, eviction proceedings. The cases have doubled since 2003.
"But in about 2,500 cases this year, the city had to jump in," said Michael Schleicher, Housing Department on Tuesday at the launch of the new Cologne Mietspiegel.
Means that the city takes over the rent in arrears, not to land people on the street.
While the net rents for apartments in the middle and upper levels are virtually unchanged since 2006, have the rents for small, inexpensive housing once attracted above-average - by about five percent.
If they are to be payable at 8.70 Euro per square meter. A simple 40 square meters large apartment costs around 350 euros cold -.
In addition, the charges have exploded especially for heating, and a further setback like a broken washing machine for many means: Nothing works anymore. Tewes: "For many owners of rent arrears pile up in the high four figures."
