Restricted living space? SP-Badran says: “I only had one room until I was 44”

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“Tenants’ association wants to limit living space – but board member Badran lives generously,” headlined the “Tages-Anzeiger” on Thursday. The accusation: the SP country council member preaches water, but drinks wine himself.

In the discussion about the housing shortage, the Swiss Tenants Association, among others, had suggested the idea of ​​indicating how many people should live in an apartment of a certain size. A single person may occupy a maximum of a two-room apartment, two persons may occupy a maximum of a three-room apartment. A five-room apartment should be rented to at least four people.

But tenants Jeanne d’Arc, Jacqueline Badran (61), lives with her husband on “at least 150 square meters”. Blick also reported on it.

“Big nonsense”

Only: Badran is not in favor of limiting the living space per person. On the contrary, she opposes it – and not just since Thursday. She wrote on her May 18 blog that this was “gross bullshit.” Such a restriction is “unenforceable without a huge bureaucratic effort of scrutiny, let alone that such a demand could ever gain a majority”.

Lived in one room for a long time

But above all, she thinks the living space boundaries are wrong. “Imagine the kids are out of the house and the mom can finally set up a yoga room in conjunction with her office—in other words, improve it. The alternative would be to evict them from their homes and force them into a smaller apartment,” Badran writes. “It’s a nightmare for me.”

As Badran writes, she herself slept in a room with her mother until the age of 14, and later had a room of no more than 20 square meters in shared apartments until the age of 44. When a roommate moved out and she was able to rent his room to set up an office, she was happy as a child every time she came home: “This is what real improvement in my daily life looked like.”

“Forcing, That Doesn’t Work”

According to the Zurich resident, there is nothing wrong with exchanging apartments within cooperatives to create space for young families. ‘But coercion? No, you can’t.” Especially since people who would have bought an apartment or a house are not affected, but tenants are.

Now she lives with her husband in a large apartment, in which everyone also has their own office. “When I retire, I will convert my 5.5-room apartment back into a shared flat. Because I can’t afford anything else with my pension.”

This shows that needs change over the course of life – also in terms of housing. “Limiting this by law robs people of the opportunity to change and improve, takes away their perspectives and options.”

Source:Blick