Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I am now here less and less for various reasons. Nevertheless, you remain memorable to me because I often found your frequently snippy to arrogant posts ironic, given the fact that you yourself made the biggest embarrassing mistake in house building (contract without a fixed building plot). That does not mean that I want an autograph from you, but rather that I know how to classify your comments. There is simply a lot of (unnecessary) self-presentation in your behavior here.

Um... was there another bottle of hard liquor involved yesterday? It was late and Sunday before the new stupid work week anyway... Contract without a fixed building plot? Did you mix something up while drunk?

Sorry, but anyone who doesn't understand "didn't lift a finger" until turnkey handover and "did a lot themselves" from turnkey handover really should ignore my posts. It's just too complicated for them then. That's not bad, not everyone can do it.

How can more than half of the construction costs be KFW subsidies? That doesn't add up...

The issue is not: There are not enough apartments. The issue is: There are not enough apartments in the right locations or with the right qualities. (...)

Well... actually the issue is settled by the fact that there is simply no fundamental right to live at affordable prices at Stachus or in Kreuzberg. Where it is popular, prices rise; ultimately, this is, with certain limitations, a market economy.

And subsidies won’t help us there either. I just read on ntv that the heat pump is supposed to become as cheap as a gas heating system through subsidies. That is of course nonsense. The heat pump remains expensive; part of the cost is simply paid by someone else, in all likelihood the taxpayer. So not only Mrs. Klatten, but also the cashier and the bus driver, who already groans under the high rent and high prices.

And what is the alternative? Not giving his voter base the heat pump and losing deputies in the next election?

I don't really believe that the Greens will lose many seats. They won't gain massively, yes. But it won't go below 14% either.

It is the system that makes it not worth building a granny flat. Or even two or more.

The legislation is landlord-unfriendly. If the tenant does not pay the rent or intentionally damages the apartment, then as a landlord I have no or very few rights, which in serious cases can threaten my existence. It cannot be that as a landlord I need a year to evict the tenant and have to pay thousands of euros in advance for eviction, etc.

Billing, requirements, etc. do not make renting more attractive.

Combined with tax incentives and more landlord-friendly legislation, it would be easier again to create living space.
An immediate termination of a tenancy only causes the tenant to shrug their shoulders a little.

In Spain, you go to jail if the apartment is destroyed and the damage is not compensated. Late rent payments are considered fraud there. Here there is the rent receipt fraud. But with one partial payment of the rent, it is already bypassed.
It can happen that someone moves in with you and lives for a year without paying even one euro in rent. You can understand why houses and apartments stand empty.

But all this will develop. Currently, in red-green Berlin, they would rather discuss the expropriation of housing corporations than create incentives for housing construction. The new dilettante heating law then further hinders this.

The economist Schnitzer calls for an annual immigration of 1.5 million skilled workers. I do not know where all of them are supposed to live?
And whether they even want to come here. We are not the center of the world. Or rather, no longer.
In the GDR, they still passed a housing construction program in the seventies. Well, they were mostly prefabricated buildings with district heating.
Back then, ahead of their time. Habeck would be proud of it, but in 1989 the housing problem of the GDR was largely solved.

In 1973, the GDR’s housing construction program was passed and by 1989 three million apartments were built. With only 16 million inhabitants. I always knew that in the GDR we were decades ahead of our time.

They already had district heating networks, public transport was electrified, the entire train and bus traffic was coordinated, the green wave and traffic controls had long been in the cities, the construction of single-family homes was regulated, individual traffic as well, there were only a few cars and the highways were empty. Only one in four GDR citizens had their own car.

Man, how progressive we were back then.