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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

‘Double punishment’: the racial discrimination in Europe’s rental housing market

Hamado Dipama, who is from Burkina Faso, realised he had overlooked the line in a newspaper advert saying: ‘Germans only.’
Hamado Dipama, who is from Burkina Faso, realised he had overlooked the line in a newspaper advert saying: ‘Germans only.’ Photograph: Frank Bauer/The Guardian

The 40 sq metre apartment had everything that Hamado Dipama was looking for: one bedroom, a bath and a good location in the southern German city of Augsburg. When he called to set up a viewing, however, the landlord kept asking him where he was from.

“It was really bizarre,” said Dipama. “I told him that I didn’t know what that had to do with his rental. And he hung up on me.”

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