40 apartments for the homeless at Geveker Kamp ready for occupancy
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40 apartments for the homeless at Geveker Kamp in Hanover ready – first moves in this week
40 apartments for the homeless will be available at Geveker Kamp 9, 11 and 13 in Davenstedt. The first can probably move in before Christmas.
© Source: Ilona Hottmann
Hanover. Just in time for Christmas, a new shelter for the homeless opens in Hanover. This is the building complex at Geveker Kamp 9-13 in Davenstedt, which was previously empty. The city administration of Hanover informed our editorial team. The city is expected to present notebooks this week.
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According to the city, the new accommodation has 40 apartments. The first homeless people will apparently move in this week. The few remaining works are expected to be completed in January 2023, the city’s response continues. The remaining apartments can then be occupied successively. The completion of the new apartments appears to have come at the right time. “We estimate the number of homeless people living on the streets at 700 people,” deaconry pastor Friedhelm Feldkamp told our editorial team. The trend is “strongly increasing”.
The renovation backlog at Geveker Kamp lasted five years
The first residential units at Geveker Kamp were already cleared in September 2017, and the renovation work was supposed to start in mid-2018, but there were delays. The Davenstedt building complex is one of a number of properties that the city has been wanting to renovate for a long time. But then she didn’t make any progress with the project. The result: years of vacancy. The Hannover working group for critical social work had already criticized this a year ago. A group of activists drew attention to this again in the middle of this month with a poster campaign with more than 2000 posters – and asked to report empty apartments.
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According to the administration, two other projects in the city will not be completed by the end of the year. The opening of the new day club on Dornierstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the municipal emergency shelter Alter Flughafen is not expected until January 2023 due to ongoing construction work in severe weather conditions. As long as it is closed, the Alter Flughafen emergency shelter will continue to be available during the day. The end of the renovation work on the “Red Row”, a row of brick houses on Schulenburger Landstrasse in Vinnhorst, is not expected until the end of 2023.
Two properties are now used for refugees
Two more of the long-vacant properties, also originally intended for homeless people, are now being used to house refugees. These were the former nurses’ home in the zoo district in Kleefeld and the former hall of AS Solar in Bornum, which had been converted into emergency accommodation for the refugees.