Kristian Frigelj A German couple have been moved into a refugee camp in Bonn

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German husband and wife, Uwe and Margitta Lange, fell into financial trouble last year in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Bonn. Margitta, 60, who is currently in remission from cancer, fell behind on her rent of 800 euros per month - a huge chunk of their combined €1250 monthly income. Retired former truck driver Uwe sought help for the couple with the local authorities - but they were denied assistance. The last stop before being put out on the streets - a container home in a refugee camp.

Kristian Frigelj Uwe and Margitta Lange fell behind on their rent and ended up homeless

We're going to get even sicker here Margitta Lange

Mrs Lange, a former kitchen assistant, said: "This is not home. One can hardly move. “We're going to get even sicker here “It is but the same for the refugees. "In the beginning we were really afraid.” The couple living in the city of Bonn are not the only suffering from poverty in western Germany. The Federal Statistical Office recently revealed more than one in seven residents in Germany is affected by poverty - most notably in the west. In 2015 more than one million migrants from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have been granted asylum in Germany. Thousands supported the move by Angela Merkel to welcome them to their country while thousands more marched against it.

GETTY Migrants arrive in Bonn, Germany where up to 800 applications every day were processed in the summer

Sex attacks and crime committed by migrants have troubled the country and seen support for the ruling Christian Democrat party slashed. But as poverty spreads among native Germans, cracks of discontent are deepening. The Langes are now living in a three-storey container complex, 13 square meters in size, big enough for two cot beds, steel lockers and a few moving boxes. And the conditions are less than hygienic. The kitchen is shared with refugees and is often unsuitable for cooking in. However, the biggest shock of all for the couple was them being made to live in the block assigned to them - while in the building next door there are rooms with private toilets and laundry facilities.

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A spokeswoman for the city of Bonn said there are 10,805 social housing apartments with more being constantly created. The city would not comment on the couple for reasons of data protection but said there is "long list of apartment seekers" and the offer of an apartment is "according to emergency criteria". The spokeswoman insisted they were not giving social housing priority to refugees. She said: ”In individual cases it will not be possible to prevent homeless people from being accommodated in refugee shelters, just as individual refugees have moved into homeless shelters. "In this case, emergency shelters and containers for refugees are very close together. The standard of the container system corresponds at least to that of the emergency accommodation." The Langes say they are looking for apartments themselves. They are often out and about during the day, also because they can not stand being inside their room.

GETTY Refugees risked their lives to make it to Germany for a new start