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Costs for refugee accommodation

It is estimated that the care and integration of refugees will cost 20 billion euros in 2016. In the programme Frontal21 from 24.5.2016 (from (minute 25 to 33) figures are given on how some providers of refugee accommodation charge horrendous prices. According to their research, the costs of accommodation per refugee range from 87 to 1,100 euros per month, in the extreme case of Velbert (near Wuppertal) even 1,500 euros per refugee per month.

In the contribution of the Time from 23.05.2016 costs for refugee accommodation are mentioned for various locations in Hamburg. These range from 10 to 38 euros per person per day, which corresponds to around 300 to 1,140 euros per person per month. It is interesting to note that small locations are not necessarily more expensive than large ones.

The topic of the construction costs of refugee accommodation is taken up by the German contribution to the 15th International Architecture Biennale 2016, which can be found on the website www.makingheimat.de can be seen. There are 54 different refugee buildings in the database comparing the net costs. The range of net costs is between 1,000 and 2,300 euros per m² GFA (cost group 300 - 400).

 


Keywords: DE-News, Refugee shelters, News Blog Hamburg
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