Guidelines for Rentals and Sales of Housing Space in Nuremberg

Policy Response DateOctober 2, 2009 Country: Germany Address: Nuremberg General Type: Discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Housing, Anti-discrimination, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life

“As a member of the international city network ‘Cities for Human Rights’, Nuremberg has made fighting discrimination and racism against people of a migration background in the local housing market a political priority of Nuremberg’s agenda. To that end, the city of Nuremberg and stakeholders of the Nuremberg housing market have drafted specified guidelines which should help the city, real estate companies, estate agents and landlords to considered migrants who want to rent or buy a flat without prejudice and free of discrimination. Moreover, the guidelines seek to contribute to a climate of mutual respect, cooperation and co‐existence between people of various cultural origins, mentalities and languages and to foster intercultural exchange and integration in the neighbourhood.
To reach this goal in practice, an intensive discussion process with all relevant actors has been initiated by the city of Nuremberg which seeks to lead to a common understanding of all actors and concrete strategies for the implementation of these guidelines” (Peucker 2010, p. 55).

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