Berlin – There is a lot of argument in Berlin about how well or badly the construction of new apartments is progressing. Current figures show: In the past four years, in which the red-red-green coalition ruled, significantly more apartments were completed than in the four years before, when the SPD and CDU formed the Senate. The construction of more apartments than before has also been approved in the past four years. This emerges from a response from the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing to a request from Left-wing MP Gaby Gottwald. A legislative period in Berlin lasts five years, but because the current year is not yet over, the overview is limited to the comparable period of four years.
While the construction of 79,134 apartments was approved from 2013 to 2016, in the four years thereafter there were already 91,944 apartments – around 12,800 more. Most of the apartments were approved in the past eight years with around 26,600 in Treptow-Köpenick, followed by the Mitte district with almost 24,900 apartments. The Reinickendorf district brings up the rear with permits for the construction of around 5,700 apartments. In the past eight years, the construction of a total of 171,078 apartments was approved in Berlin. In purely mathematical terms, that would have been sufficient to achieve the long-term goal of 20,000 apartments per year. The problem: Not every approved apartment is built.
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