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The variety of social housing continues to say no

The variety of social housing items in Germany fell once more final yr. At the top of 2023, there have been round 1.072 million such flats nationwide for folks with low incomes, round 15,300 fewer than a yr earlier. This emerges from the federal authorities's reply to a query from the Left parliamentary group within the Bundestag, which has been submitted to the dpa.

The development of 49,430 social housing items was newly funded final yr. The visitors mild authorities had really deliberate to create 100,000 new social housing items yearly. But the underside line is that their quantity has been declining for years as a result of many current social housing items are now not topic to hire management and may then be rented out at increased costs.

“Historic low”

The Left's housing coverage knowledgeable, Caren Lay, who made the request, spoke of a “historic low”. “In view of the unbridled rise in rents and the increasing housing shortage, this is a fiasco,” she defined. According to the figures, the lack of social housing has not too long ago elevated: in 2022, round 14,000 social housing items have been misplaced.

The growth is completely different when evaluating the federal states. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony, the variety of flats fell by 4 digits, based on Lay. In Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, nevertheless, it elevated by greater than a thousand flats.

North Rhine-Westphalia is the chief

There was a very massive variety of new funding final yr within the two most populous federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, adopted by Berlin and Hamburg. The most social housing items total have been recorded in North Rhine-Westphalia with 426,755, Bavaria with 134,793 and Berlin (99,849).

Rents for social housing are regulated by the state. Only individuals who the authorities see as having a particular want are allowed to reside there. However, after a sure time period, the flats will be rented out usually in the marketplace. The length of this bond is regulated in a different way in every nation.

Lay criticized that the federal subsidy for social housing of two.5 billion euros final yr was clearly not sufficient. “Especially now in the construction crisis, the public sector itself must build and subsidize more,” she demanded. At least 20 billion euros should be made obtainable yearly for public social and non-profit housing.

dpa