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1 month agoAssuming that you’re asking in good faith - People are frequently evicted from longterm rented accomodation because the landlord can make more profit from AirBNB. This in turn reduces the pool of available housing and drives up rents.
To clarify - the name of the village was the literal word ‘Fucking’, which was printed on the road signs that kept being stolen. Of course, ‘Fucking’ doesn’t mean ‘fucking’ in German (that would be ‘ficken’); according to Wikipedia, the (previous) name of the village (“Fucking”) means “(place of) Focko’s people”.