Berlin – Despite the ongoing housing shortage in Berlin, the federal government is sticking to a manageable new construction program in the capital. Of the 3,000 apartments planned nationwide by the end of 2024, “up to around 850 apartments in Berlin” are to be built according to the current planning status. This emerges from a response from the parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Bettina Hagedorn, to a request from the Bundestag member Gesine Lötzsch (left). In the longer term, the construction of up to 2,700 apartments is conceivable in Berlin on state-owned land.
According to Hagedorn, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA), which wants to build the new accommodations “as a contribution to the housing offensive of the federal government”, assumes that it will be able to build a total of 6000 to 8000 apartments nationwide on its properties. So far, however, the BImA has only completed 50 apartments, none of them in Berlin – “especially because of the preliminary planning process,” as they say. For comparison: As of June 30, 2020, around 40,800 federal employees were registered in Berlin. The number of federally owned apartments in the capital was just under 5000 by 2020. As of September 15, 2020, the federal government also had occupancy rights for 2782 apartments in the city. In purely mathematical terms, this is not enough to provide for federal employees.
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