Overview

• Bavaria ceased funding hotel accommodations for refugees as of May 1, 2025, citing high costs of €1,000–€1,700 per month per placement.
• Munich relocated approximately 1,100 refugees, including 200 minors and many elderly, from hotels to decentralized municipal housing by the deadline.
• The city's 43 decentralized sites, with a capacity of around 8,400 beds, were nearly full before the relocations, highlighting ongoing capacity challenges.
• Welfare associations criticized the sudden moves, emphasizing the disruption to vulnerable groups, such as children pulled from schools and kindergartens.
• An additional hotel housing 300 refugees is scheduled to close in June, further straining Munich's already limited housing resources.