Rostock is fighting for more social housing: DMB demands a billion -dollar grant!

Rostock is fighting for more social housing: DMB demands a billion -dollar grant!

Rostock, Deutschland - The Situation on the housing market in Germany is becoming increasingly pussy. Today it became clear at a conference in Rostock that the German Tenants' Association (DMB) is calling for an urgent change of course in social housing. The reason for this is alarming figures: more social housing are eliminated every year than new ones are built. The stock of social housing has almost halved since 2006, which means that only around 1.1 million social housing is still available. This is far from sufficient, because over eleven million tenant households are entitled to a residential authorization certificate, such as [NDR] (https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/rostock-mieterbund-draengt-auf-bau-- Mehr- more apartments, social apartments-138.html).

Currently, the entitled to claims in the educational swamp of a housing shortage: Statistics show that there are ten times more justified households than available social housing. Around 40,000 social housing disappear annually, while only around 25,000 new subsidized apartments are created. This means that the existence of social housing drops on average by 40,000 per year. According to the DMB, 100,000 newly built social housing is required in order to combat this crisis and increase the inventory to two million social housing by 2030. These are ambitious goals that can only be achieved with an extensive investment program.

demands for social housing

The DMB suggests that the federal and state governments provide 50 billion euros for social living space in order to realize these sought 100,000 social housing per year. It is also a very central point that social housing must be secured as a task as a whole social task. The DMB also calls for an exception to the debt brake for the investment program in housing construction. Melanie Weber-Moritz, the new President of the DMB, is certain: "We have to create fair living conditions for normal earners." This insight is all the more urgent than government funding has been neglected in recent years, as well as the creation of social housing, as also [mentional association] (https://mieterbund.de/aktuelles/meldungen/akut-angel-910-000-zialwohnungen-in-Deutschland/).

Some federal states are particularly standing out in the negative balance: In Baden-Württemberg, around 206,000 social housing, followed by Bavaria, lacked 195,000 and Berlin with 131,000. These number games reveal a worrying picture: it indicates that current politics actually neglected the topic of social housing. So officially documented that the expenses for social housing in recent years were less than 2.5 billion euros per year. The mismatch between rent editions for accommodation and promotion for the construction of social housing is blatant: social expenditure is about eight times as high as funding.

Future view of new residential projects

At the conference in Rostock, it was also announced that the city of Rostock is planning to create a total of 26,000 new apartments by 2035. This initiative could be a step in the right direction to counteract the shortage of housing. The new Federal Minister of Construction Verena Hubertz, who is expected in Warnemünde on Friday, could also contribute to improving the living situation with creative ideas. Time is pushing, and the signs of housing shortage are red. Incidentally, a look at the numbers of the Pestel Institute: According to this, more than 910,000 social housing is missing across Germany! As long as the pressure on the housing market remains so high, every initiative will be of great importance to create social living space.