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Seven building ministers from the CDU, CSU and FDP are calling on the federal government to pay the building subsidy with KfW funds for new apartments in full again.
The federal government is asked to "close the funding gap that has arisen in new housing construction immediately and completely promptly," according to an application by the department heads of Bavaria, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein.
All housing projects planned by 2024 should be able to be realized with reliable funding for climate-friendly and energy-efficient new housing.
The building ministers of the federal and state governments want to discuss the future promotion of efficient buildings at a special digital conference on Thursday.
The Federal Ministry of Economics led by Robert Habeck (Greens) recently surprisingly announced that no new applications for the promotion of efficient buildings could be submitted to the KfW development bank.
The department cited a flood of applications and additional costs in the billions as the reason.
After much criticism, parts of the requested funds are now supposed to flow.
In addition to the new building subsidies according to the KfW efficiency standard EH55 and the higher EH40 standard, this also affected the energy-related refurbishment of buildings.
The federal government and the budget committee of the Bundestag had provided a further 9.5 billion euros last week.
According to the ministry, the money is intended both for processing the old applications submitted before January 24th and for the resumption of the refurbishment subsidy and the new edition of the EH40 new building subsidy.
Preparations are still underway for new building subsidies based on the EH40 standard.
It is to be resumed under changed conditions, while those for refurbishments remain the same.
The Efficiency House 55 program, which has fewer requirements than EH40, is not to be resumed and was finally discontinued on January 24th.
However, the government still wants to process the applications that were received by January 23.
The chairwoman of the conference of building ministers, Baden-Württemberg's housing minister, Nicole Razavi (CDU), calls for a long-term funding strategy.
Brandenburg's Construction Minister Guido Beermann (CDU) said that the surprising funding freeze had lost a lot of trust.
“Even the partial resumption of funding will not change that.
The housing industry and private builders are unsettled, and many new rental housing projects are on the brink.
The federal government must take countermeasures here quickly.«
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