People’s Prosecutor Gaby Schwarz demands window exchange

A young family from Vienna has turned to the public prosecutor who has to struggle in their community apartment due to age, desolater window with mold, drafts and high heating costs. But Wiener Wohnen refuses to exchange the windows on the grounds that the residents are false. In the ORF program “Citizens’ Prosecutor”, Volksanese lawyer Gaby Schwarz moves into a clear position. “First, the apartment was not handed over in a useful condition. Second, the non -closing windows are the cause of the indoor climate. Third, the mold is hazardous to parents and children. In these cases, the landlord is duty to maintain, ”emphasizes the public prosecutor and refers to a judicature of the Supreme Court. “I expect Wiener living as quickly as possible. After all, new laminated windows have already been used in the house. “

The family moved to the municipal apartment in Vienna-Währing in the summer of 2024. The municipal building dates from the 1950s. The so-called box windows made of wood are correspondingly old and in need of renovation. During the apartment tour, it was noticed that the window in the bedroom was damaged. This window was exchanged. But it turned out that the windows in the children’s room, living room and in the kitchen are also desolate. Wiener Wohnen said that you have to wait if the apartment is not adopted in this state. So the family moved in with baby.

New windows have not come, but mold. But according to Wiener Wohnen, the indoor climate is responsible for this. An exchange of the other windows is only possible as part of a general renovation. When exactly you couldn’t say. “The fact that our daughter is exposed to mold due to the broken windows is very stressful. We ventilate several times a day. But the windows are not tight, the putty breaks out in places, the wood is rotten, the handles do not work. The varnish splinter. The wood of the outer window is exposed to the weather unprotected. Due to the moisture, mold forms again and again. It is incomprehensible to me that Wiener lives to swap the windows, ”complains the tenant and mother of a seven -month -old daughter.