2023-06-17 10:02:19
housing shortage
Kühnert: Implement plans for inexpensive apartments quickly
“The goal must be to reactivate non-profit housing this year,” says Kevin Kühnert (SPD). photo
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Affordable housing remains scarce. The Federal Building Ministry now wants to take a different approach to motivate landlords to provide permanently affordable housing.
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert is pushing for the Federal Building Ministry’s plans for more affordable housing to be implemented quickly. “The aim must be to reactivate the non-profit housing scheme this year,” said Kühnert of the “Augsburger Allgemeine” (Saturday). “It would also be a helpful contribution to our goal of getting closer to the necessary 400,000 new homes per year.”
In the case of non-profit housing, landlords who provide permanently affordable housing should be given tax advantages and subsidies. According to a key issues paper, Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) wants to enable non-profit companies to act as landlords. Recently, the Diakonie and Caritas, among others, had pushed for such a regulation. The opposition has criticized the project. While the Union has recently expressed general doubts about the benefits of a new non-profit housing scheme, the left-wing faction complained that not enough money had been planned for it.
“With the non-profit housing as a joint traffic light project, we want to reactivate a legal form that the black and yellow federal government abolished in 1990,” said Kühnert. “Our goal is that both existing apartments can be converted into non-profit housing, but new apartments can also be built according to this model.” At the same time, he called on the federal government to ensure funding.
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