Germany’s Reply WD 2 – 3000 – 041/16 (1 March 2016) © 2016 Deutscher Bundestag

1. What is your country’s policy on providing housing assistance to ex-Service personnel?

The principal responsibility for providing housing information and advice to German service
personnel lies with the armed forces (Bundeswehr) up to the point of discharge. These services
are delivered through the so-called „Wohnungsfürsorge“ (housing assistance) of the Bundeswehr
Service Centres.

Task of the Wohnungsfürsorge is to strongly support service members entitled to housing
assistance in their search for family-friendly resp. disability-friendly housing by offering
available state-owned housing or communicating available and affordable living space of the
real estate market. At this, precedence is given to those service members who are transferred to
another garrison, and their families. However, the Wohnungsfürsorge also assists already retired
service members in their search for living space even by providing information about facilities for
disability-friendly and elder-friendly housing. 1

Beyond this, there are no measures in place in Germany to provide special or preferential
housing assistance to ex-service personnel.

2. How many veterans own their own home in comparison to the general population?

No data available.

3. How many veterans have accessed housing/ welfare benefits or assistance?

No data available.

1 See Teilkonzeption „Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Dienst in den Streitkräften“, issued by the Federal Ministry of
Defence / Inspector General of the Bundeswehr on 21 May 2007. Retrieved from http://www.bundeswehr.de/
resource/resource/MzEzNTM4MmUzMzMyMmUzMTM1MzMyZTM2MzIzMDMwMzAzMDMwMzAzMDY4Mz
U2Zjc4Nzg2NDY2NzQyMDIwMjAyMDIw/Teilkonzeption.pdf on 1 March 2016.

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Reply of the German Bundestag
Housing Assistance for Veterans

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