German city offers to live in it for free

Gerlitz.Germany) offers work and free housing for a month to citizens of other cities and countries - the authorities want to invite active people.

Görlitz is located in eastern Germany (the border with Poland), it is home to about 54,000 people, most of them pensioners.

To breathe new life into the city, local authorities have developed a program where people from other cities and countries are offered a free apartment for a month. This strategy has already been used by Detroit and Tulsa in the United States.

The city is waiting for people who work remotely and do not aspire to megacities, the city is free of 7 thousand apartments. New residents will receive apartments and vacancies to choose from.

In Görlitz, the filming of the films “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “The Reader”, “Inglourious Basterds” took place. Görlitz welcomes 140,000 tourists every year, and some even call it the “New Berlin.”

Credit: 34travel