Recently revised housing regulations in Germany have reduced the size of public housing that welfare recipients are entitled to. Since there were not enough apartments of the newly-mandated size in Loebau, welfare recipients in the east Germany town were allowed to stay in their current (larger-sized) apartments.
German officials (you've already guessed it) then said that the residents could only occupy the square footage of the apartment that was allowed by regulation-- and have even sent out regular inspectors to ensure that the extra rooms remain vacant and unused.
What's more unbelievable is the residents are willingly going along with the nutty scheme.
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