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In Germany and throughout Europe, there is an increasingly intense debate about how refugees can be deterred. Populist demands dominate the debate climate. But the experiences of recent years from all European countries show: no measure has reduced the number of refugees. On the contrary, the number of desperate people is growing, who have to leave their homes and seek a new place to live. 

90% of our hosts believe that supporting refugees is an essential part of democracy. Therefore, we want to organize concrete help for refugees - and in the first step, that means providing safe accommodation. 

Collective accommodations - often a dead end! 

In Germany, most refugees are still hosted in collective accommodations many months after their arrival and registration because they cannot find a flat. There, they live without privacy, without a realistic chance to build contacts with local people, mostly without the opportunity to work and stand on their own feet. 

What is not being used and organized in most cities are private accommodations. 

From initial surveys, we know: Many of you who volunteered to help people from Ukraine are also willing to accommodate refugees from other countries. But the legal hurdles for this are high. However, many studies have shown: A fresh start in Germany is most successful when refugees can live in their own apartments. 

What is going wrong in the current system that the great willingness of people like you is hardly being used to organize accommodation for refugees outside of collective accommodations? What needs to change? 

Very quickly and together with support of Deutschen Zentrums für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) we want to research and publish facts: 

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