Will increasingly live in luxury. The Federal government wants to change that. How about the Union and the SPD to argue, however. On a “housing summit” to find solutions.
If the policy invites to meet up to the summit, then the Problem must be more than just pressing. The topic of Housing, this is certainly the case. Even if the General rental price level in major German cities, in an international comparison, relatively low, startled the citizens. Because of the increase of prices in the housing market exceeds the increase in wages and salaries. In Germany, every Second person is living on rent. This is a peak value in Europe, where, on average, 70 percent of all people living in the own four walls.
A glance at the digital real estate portals give you an impression of what it’s about: if you are looking for a German city to an apartment, less than half of the average monthly income devours and demands on the state, the size and the location of the apartment, who may also be looking for a needle in a haystack.
Cities are booming, villages abandoned
The 14 most demanded German cities, the Rent there is between 2010 and 2017 in the case of New and re – renting by an average of 34 percent. In Munich and Stuttgart, there are more than 40 per cent, and in Berlin even close to 70 percent. In Munich be required for 80 square meters of living area, distributed between three rooms, a minimum of 1500 Euro rent. Plus costs for water, heating and electricity. In a desirable downtown location, the apartment can cost up to Twice as much.
Demonstration for affordable housing in Munich
However, the shortage of housing in Germany is a regional Problem. By the end of 2016, two million homes were nationwide, especially in rural areas empty, of which 620,000 in the East of Germany. In large cities, however, it is always close. Berlin must cope with per year to 40,000 additional residents. The often medium-sized University towns are affected, as nationally, the number of students has since 2008, from 1.8 to 2.8 million increase.
The policy has failed
Where more people want to live, as the room is tilting, the market and Housing will become a luxury item. This applies for rental, but also for condos. Renting is a lucrative business. In addition, real estate in times of low interest rates are a promising investment.
For many years the Federal but also the Länder and the local authorities standing idly by as the housing market has changed. Tax housing subsidies was reduced and state-owned housing companies, is being sold to private investors. A shortage of housing, seemed to be a Problem from the day before yesterday. Yet 2017 thought for the SPD Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, whether or not the subject of Living in the election campaign should be emphasized.
Suddenly, the policy raises the Alarm
Trade unions and social organisations assume that, measured in terms of the need for, lack of, in the meantime, a Million homes in Germany. In addition, the number of social housing with a comparatively low rent for low-Income in the past 30 years, was shrunk from four million to 1.25 million.
What a lot of people in Germany is of great concern to a long time, is now arrived but even in the highest political levels. Living had become “the new social question”, noted Minister of justice Katarina Barley (SPD). Also, the CDU and CSU have recognized the Problem. “Affordable housing, as well as full employment and the participation of all in the prosperity of our most important political objectives,” said Federal Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU).
A “housing summit” to address it
“We need in Germany urgently need more apartments,” says Angela Merkel, in her latest weekly Podcast. The Federal government will invest up to 2021 five billion euros in social housing and “a substantial contribution that affordable housing for lower income is made available,” the Chancellor and CDU Chairman.
For this Friday, Merkel, representatives of the Federal government, the länder and the municipalities, the housing and real estate industry, the Mieterbunds, the trade unions and the construction industry has been invited to the Chancellery. On a “housing summit” to be talked about, as are the noble aims can be implemented. Because to want more living space create, is much easier said than done. Prior to the housing summit the Federal economy demanded Minister Peter Altmaier measures for a faster Build. This is the only way to alleviate the housing shortage, said the CDU politician of the “Passauer Neue Presse”.
Dispute over the right way
But a tedious thing, and the construction industry is no industry that can come on the push of a button to use to Build. In large cities, space is hardly available. Green spaces and Parks, no one wants to sacrifice. A recently created report of the Federal Ministry of economic Affairs comes to the succinct conclusion that not all people could live in Central downtown locations. “Where no additional living space can be created, it will be a luxury to live there.”
Small and cramped – it is in the cities, not the other way?
The SPD is not enough, the demand for more housing. In the government coalition, the party has set a tightening of the rental price brake. Thus, it should be landlords made heavy to be able to Rent Neubezügen to your liking. Little chance of implementation, however, is a 12-point Plan, which the SPD presented recently. It proposes, among other things, that existing rents, and Rents for new leases in areas with tight housing markets for five years only in the amount of the Inflation increase.
More money for builders
The CDU and CSU not good, have already crunched the tightening of the rental price brake considerably with the teeth. “We want to strengthen the rights of tenants without burdening the landlord disproportionate”, stressed the Chancellor. The Union relies on the financial support to the housing. Who will build rental housing, will be able to sell his construction costs, for tax purposes, more extensive. Families should also be given per child is € 12,000 “baukinder money” when you purchase residential property.