Linden (dpa/lhe) - Dozens of people have to look for a new apartment in Linden (Giessen district) because of violations of building regulations. Since 2005, four illegal single and multi-family houses have been built in a commercial area, the district announced on Monday. "It is planned to give the residents a generous one-year period to look for legal alternative housing." The solution to the housing shortage cannot be more and more illegal construction. The media had previously reported that around 70 people were affected by a move.

In recent years, for example, a warehouse has been turned into an apartment building, and a residential and administrative building has been turned into a student residence. In addition, a villa-like house was built without permission. "These repeated and increasingly numerous violations of the public building law in this area - including the disregard of several building freezes - has now reached a level that makes intervention by the building control authority urgently necessary," said the district. According to a report by "hessenschau.de", students live there, but also refugees.