Bernim's housing room: Turbo offensive for cheap living space!

Bernim's housing room: Turbo offensive for cheap living space!

We are clearly about stone and mortar. The new federal government has announced a "housing construction turbo", which is also to be felt here in the region. For example, the chairwoman of IG Bau Oderland, Astrid Gehrke, calls for an “upswing living” for Barnim and Brandenburg in order to meet the urgent need for social housing and affordable living space. In fact: The district of Barnim recorded the construction of 792 new apartments last year, 482 of which were built in the form of one and two-family houses. The building costs amounted to a whopping 163.8 million euros, such as bernau-live.de reported.

But that's just the beginning! Gehrke emphasizes the need for a new building offensive, especially to create living in the senior citizens. A proposal for reducing the construction costs provides to achieve savings of up to a third by simpler and cheaper building. According to igbau.de

The economic pressure increases

increasing construction costs stand in the way of creating new living space. In the past 25 years, construction costs have increased by 2.5 times, with a considerable price increase of 32% in the past five years alone. Nationwide, over 550,000 apartments are missing, while 9.6 million people live in overcrowded accommodations. An increase of 1.1 million covered apartments in the past five years illustrates the time pressure under which the industry is.

Robert Feiger from IG Bau emphasizes the need for financial resources for social housing and pleads for general standard standards. According to a current study, there is a lack of reliable means of housing. In order to counteract this, at least 11 billion euros in funding would be required for the construction of 100,000 social housing annually. To create 60,000 affordable apartments per year, you need at least 4 billion euros annually.

an integrated approach for sustainable housing construction

Gehrke also suggests the introduction of a label "Gut & cheap" for housing in order to secure quality and at the same time keep the costs within the framework. A focus on the "building type E" could be helpful here by promoting simple, relieved and efficient construction. This enabled not only the construction costs, but also the ecological standards, but was warned of exaggerated requirements for noise and climate protection.

Finally, it shows that the housing shortage in Barnim and beyond is a serious challenge. Politics, the associations and the construction industry have to work hand in hand in order to set the course for sustainable and affordable housing purchases. This is the only way to really take away the "housing construction turbo" and benefit everyone in the Barnim.