At Housing Construction Day 2024, the construction industry paints a bleak picture. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has a cynical message for the housing industry.
“You are the ones who suffer. But we have to get through it,” he says. The industry also fears job losses because of the lack of skilled workers, says ZDB President Wolfgang Schubert-Raab. At the end of the day, a very expensive product is created: “I say there is a need for a new Germany’s Mercedes’, says construction minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) “We don’t have to promote icing, but brown bread – the affordable brown bread,’ says housing industry president Axel Gedaschko of the GdW umbrella association of the housingindustry. ‘We have a high need for affordable housing while at the same time construction costs are far too high, also due to construction standards that are fartoo high,‘ he adds.