Locals living near the picturesque Lake Starnberg, which is a popular tourist location outside Munich in Bavaria, are struggling amid a housing affordability crisis. Yet, the Bavarian government, led by the Christian Socialist Union (CSU), is moving forward with a project to provide luxury accommodations to migrants, which will include free childcare.
The new asylum home will be built in the community of Seeshaupt, which is home to 3,000 people. Prices for homes and rents there are already sky-high. Lakeside properties in the town can go for millions, and sometimes reach €10 million.
“This is prime property, and it is not free. It is part of the wealth of all Bavarians. I hope we will pass this by,” said FDP politician Armin Mell in response to the new asylum home.
The property, which will cost an estimated €6 million, will be located in a prime luxury location and will house 100 asylum seekers. No expense will be spared with the building project either, which is to feature a “four-part development, sustainable in solid wood construction, with a gable roof, photovoltaic system, heat pump technology, and landscaped outdoor areas,” according to the regional newspaper Münchner Merkur.
Locals are promised, as in many other cases, that most of the residents will be mothers with children; however, the flow of migrants tells a story of where over 90 percent of all migrants coming into the EU are men.
Before anyone even moves in, the land must be cleared of contamination, which will cost €1.7 million alone. There will also be 50 apartments for normal tenants.
As is the case across the country, left-wing parties and mayors suddenly complain when migrants are being sent into their own towns and cities. Social Democrat (SPD) local politician Reinhard Weber calls the asylum home plans “catastrophic.”
Mayor Fritz Egold (CSU) wants to block the plan being put forward by his own party, which effectively runs Bavaria.
“We are already in talks with lawyers,” he said.
So far, a building application has not been submitted, but plans are expected to move forward in the near future.
The CSU, which is connected to the pro-immigration Christian Democrats (CDU), has come under fire in Bavaria for their relentless backing of more and more migrants for local communities.
One of the latest cases is the Bavarian town of Rott am Inn, which is seeing wide-scale demonstrations against plans to create a refugee accommodation that will house 500 people.
Protesters gathered at the district council building in Seeon, where they are furious over plans to import 500 migrants, which would then make up more than 10 percent of the town’s population of 4,000.
Notably, residents are blaming the Christian Socialist Union (CSU), which is the political powerhouse in Bavaria and effectively runs the state, with Markus Söder, the minister-president, as the head of the state. In fact, Söder had specifically promised just six months ago to the town that no such asylum home would be built.
“Mr. Söder, you have the power to put an end to this,” reads a poster from a citizens’ initiative. Another reads: “Citizens are still afraid.”
As Remix News previously reported, foreigners account for a massive amount of crime in Bavaria, and these numbers are only growing. In the German state, over half of the prisoners are now foreigners.
