Housing Search

Together under one roof" is aimed at people who live in shared accommodation and want to take the step into their own apartment. The goal of the project is to accompany the transition into their own apartment, from the search for housing to settling into the new living environment.

If interested and needed, we also offer assistance to new immigrants who have problems finding their way around the Berlin housing market. Tenants who have questions about their tenancy agreement, tenancy law and utility bills can also find support from us.

Offer:

Advice on questions about finding a flat, applying for a flat, costs of the flat or the tenancy agreement.

Languages: German and English (with translation into other languages if required)

hours:

We advise, support and accompany especially from Bulgaria and Romania newly immigrated people and living in precarious housing situations.

• in their search for an apartment and in their dealings with the authorities.
• to support the educational aspirations of their children of pre-school age
• who are looking for suitable childcare for their young children (0-6).
• with disadvantaged immigrant school children to help them succeed in school.

Focus: young adults and migration

• Support for young people between 18 and 26 years of age
• Support for homeless EU internal migrants

Counselling on questions:

• Housing situation
• livelihood/economic situation
• Social relations
• health
• Education/work

At the beginning of our cooperation we clarify your need for support.

• What do you want to achieve?
• What do you need?

In the next step, we find ways to the goal together. We clarify

• What you can achieve yourself with your possibilities.
• Where you need support from someone else.
• Who supports you in achieving your goals.

In addition, we have a lot of information about the structure and functioning of Berlin's help offers. On request, we will arrange suitable offers of help and accompany you to the appointment.

Offers of the contact point for young homeless people or people threatened by homelessness up to the age of 26:

Use of showers and washing machines, hot meal, access to computers and internet, Wi-Fi, veterinarian dogDoc with advance reservation, group offers as needed.

In the tenancy advice service, you will receive all the important information on the subject of finding an apartment. You will also learn about your rights and obligations as a tenant and where you can find housing offers. This counselling is voluntary. You will be supported by language mediators.

[DeepL:] * Mobile Contact Point Integration

• Supplementary and Independent Participation Counseling (EUTB®)
• Family counseling on queer issues
• General counseling and information
• Personal counseling and coaching

Offers at various locations.

InteraXion, welcome office and housing counselling for people with migration and refugee experience in Treptow-Köpenick, offers initial and referral counselling in questions arising from the everyday life of arriving.

The project provides support in arriving in the district and in the topics of housing and housing and creates (multilingual) handouts for this purpose and is available for consultation to migrants, refugees, (full-time and voluntary) supporters, rental agencies and other agencies. In addition, the project organizes celebrations and thematic workshops in cooperation with other associations.

It administers the <aref="https://www.facebook.com/groups/6408931…" class="active">Facebook group: "Welcome to Treptow-Köpenick!" and, in cooperation with tjfbg e.V., also runs a women's meeting place on the Kiezspindel campus and supports a language café organized by volunteers. Together with Über den Tellerrand e.V., it organizes community events in Schöneweide and supports the magazine RawafedZusammenfluss, where neighbors can tell their stories. The Welcome Office follows a participatory and intersectional approach.

[DeepL:] For refugees and people with a migration background who live in Pankow and are looking for an apartment. We help individual adults and families.

• Information on finding housing (e.g. search the Internet, documents, applications, cost transfers, electricity/gas/telephone, etc.).
  
  *Assisting with housing applications and paperwork.
  
  *Hunting for an apartment together to show how it is done
  
  *Assisting with initial apartment viewings, if necessary
  
  *Assistance in signing the lease, help in understanding the lease agreement
  
  *Education on rights and responsibilities as a tenant.
  
  *Referral to other important counseling services

Weekly search consultation hour for joint apartment search on the computer every Tuesday from 3 to 6 pm and Thursday from 2 to 5 pm.

There you have the opportunity to create housing applications together, to dedicate yourself independently to the search for housing on the computer or to arrange viewing appointments directly.

The offer takes place at the AWO Begegnungszentrum Kreuzberg, Adalbertstraße 23a, 10997 Berlin.

+++ Until further notice there are no office hours, individual appointments by prior arrangement (by mail or phone) are possible.+++

[DeepL:] For refugees, the lack of housing in Berlin is an extremely high hurdle that massively impedes a good arrival and consolidation of their living conditions. Due to various barriers, including difficulties with the German language and a lack of knowledge of the social space and existing regular structures, many refugees find it very difficult to access the numerous services available in the district and throughout the city.

With our project, we offer specialist support and advice. This includes providing the resources needed to find accommodation - such as a computer with internet access and language-accessible information. In our centrally located contact point, we have office workstations for housing searches and offer free support, advice and workshops.

Yardim - interkulturelle Wohnhilfen e. V. is an independent organization that offers assistance according to §§ 67 f SGB XII within the framework of BEW and WuW. Our offer is open to all Berliners from all districts.

We become active in the case of threatened or already occurred homelessness or unacceptable housing conditions. Our work includes among other things:

• The preservation of the flat or the search for a flat
• Debt processing
• Income clarification with the enforcement of claims to social benefits (job centre, social welfare office, family benefits office, housing office)
• Questions concerning aliens law and others