Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

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.

Contract without a fixed building plot? Did you mess something up while drunk?

I am quite sure that you once said that you signed your construction contract, but then couldn’t start because your building plot was finished (significantly) later than planned.

Uh... there was another bottle of hard liquor involved yesterday? It was late and Sunday before the new stupid workweek anyway...

It’s just too much for that person then. That’s not bad, not everyone can handle it.

Please read it yourself again. Such nonsense says more about you than you might realize when writing.

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

Math grade 6. Pay attention ;-)

Subsidy €100k per apartment x something over 300 = approx. €32 million (total costs €60 million - small plot, high utilization). KfW 297/298

I just checked. There are 367 apartments with 12,200 sqm of living space. For that you only need 7,700 sqm of land (costs with building rights at €1,400/sqm)

Oh yes, since we're talking about construction prices anyway. The pure construction costs are over €3,000/sqm.

In 1973, the GDR's housing construction program was decided, and by 1989, 3 million apartments had been built. With only 16 million inhabitants. I always knew that we in the GDR were decades ahead of the time.

Yep. The apartments were largely in need of renovation just 25 years after the program was launched, thanks to high-quality prefabricated panel buildings. However, during the program, the old town centers deteriorated because the money flowed only into the fancy prefab housing estate sins. And in the prefab housing estates, there were structural problems (lack of infrastructure and transport connections).

At reunification, about one in four apartments in the GDR needed renovation (the residents said so!) – in the West only 4%, one million apartments were considered beyond saving.

Additionally, in 1990, almost 20% of apartments had no bathroom. Half of the apartments were heated decentral(ly) (often with coal) (in the West, by the way, 90% had central heating).

Yep, you were ahead of us in the West on that. We never managed to ruin the housing stock so quickly.

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