400,000 new homes per year – and plenty of new living space for people on a tight budget. That is the goal of the government. Now let’s get more specific.
Berlin – In an alliance initiated by the government, business, trade unions and politics have agreed on the common goal of significantly more affordable housing in Germany. The participants in the “Alliance for Affordable Housing” signed an agreement on dozens of individual measures, as the German Press Agency learned from government circles. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Minister of Construction Klara Geywitz (both SPD) want to explain the plans this Wednesday.
In their coalition agreement in December, the SPD, Greens and FDP announced an “Alliance for Affordable Housing” with all the important players. Among other things, the traffic light aims to achieve the construction of 400,000 new apartments per year, 100,000 of which will be publicly funded.
Geywitz said at the alliance’s kick-off meeting in April: “It’s about breaking through a thick board: We have a great need for apartments in Germany, especially affordable housing.” most recently stuck to the target of 400,000 new homes.
In the summer, Geywitz announced on ZDF that he wanted to create the conditions for serial construction. “We need type approvals: If a house is approved in Hamburg, an official in Bavaria does not have to think again about whether it is a safe and good house.” She also announced reforms in building subsidies.
Tenants’ Association: No high expectations
The President of the German Tenants’ Association, Lukas Siebenkotten, expressed reservations about the alliance. He didn’t really have high expectations for the presentation of the report, he told the Funke media group’s newspapers. “The work of the alliance has been overtaken by reality. We are miles away from the federal government’s goal of building 400,000 apartments this year.” He assumes that there will be fewer than 300,000 apartments – “and possibly less social housing than last year, when around 25,000 social housing were completed”. .
“For the tenants, the problem of increasingly expensive housing has by no means been solved,” emphasized Siebenkotten. “For this very reason, the topic must be given more priority in politics. The chancellor must make that clear.”
Rents without taxes increased significantly
Nationwide, rents without heating have recently risen by an average of three percent within a year. The average price per square meter advertised in the first half of 2022 was 9.64 euros, according to a response from the federal government to a request from Left MP Caren Lay, which the dpa has received.
Not only tenants in the metropolises had to pay more for housing – the price increases for first and second rentals were particularly high at 13 percent in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. In Rostock, net cold rents increased by twelve percent between the first half of 2021 and the first half of 2022. Bottrop was in third place with an increase of ten percent.
Elsewhere, too, rents without heating have increased significantly within a year – for example by nine percent in Kiel, by eight percent each in Leverkusen and Leipzig and by seven percent in Bremen. The values are based on calculations by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). The BBSR evaluated advertisements from real estate portals and newspapers. dpa
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