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For environmental reasons: Minister Geywitz wants to curb the construction of single

2022-04-15T13:00:23.233Z


Detached houses are often polluters. Building Minister Klara Geywitz therefore wants fewer and differently planned new buildings. However, there should not be any regulations on the upper square meter limit for apartments.


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Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz believes that the construction of new single-family homes must be curbed.

In this way, land use can be reduced and the environment protected, explained the SPD politician.

It is "economically and ecologically nonsensical" if every generation builds new single-family houses, the SPD politician told the "taz" at the weekend.

In the beginning, five people lived in 150 square meters, »but then the children move out – and the house doesn’t shrink at that moment«.

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes have been built in Germany since the 1950s.

»Most of the families don’t live in them anymore, just one or two senior citizens.«

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The solution is a different usage cycle, said Geywitz.

»It would be good if the next generation of young families bought old houses and renovated them.

We have to provide state incentives for this.

Then you can combine both: save space and make the dream of your own house possible.«

»Rethinking in the living area«

Geywitz said a debate about "good housing" was needed.

In recent decades, the living space per person has continued to increase.

"We're talking about how one's own eating or mobility behavior affects the climate, but not yet when it comes to living." It has to be built differently, she said - with smaller living areas but larger common areas.

“But we won't make any rules about how many square meters an apartment can have.

In other areas we focus on repairing instead of throwing away or sharing instead of owning.

If we want to achieve the climate protection goals, we also need a rethink in the living area, i.e. more together instead of 'all mine'.«

According to the Federal Environment Agency, there were around 42.8 million apartments in 2020, a good five percent more than in 2011. In the same period, however, the living space actually used increased significantly more, by 6.5 percent - mainly because of the larger living space per capita.

From the minister's point of view, it would also be good to build more with wood and clay.

'That would be my wish.

Wood is a great way to improve the CO2 balance in the building sector, you can also use it to build multi-storey buildings.«

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Source: spiegel

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