The end of the new single-family home - also in the rest of Germany?
The course of a green local politician is causing a stir.
The federal party has now taken a stand.
Hamburg / Berlin - The Greens and regulation ideas in the sense: A traditionally sensitive topic in election years - from five marks for a liter of gasoline in 1998 to Veggie Day 2013. In 2019, a rather bizarre “balloon debate” boiled up.
Just seven months before the federal elections and in the middle of the polls, a local politician from Hamburg provided the party's critics with a new point of friction: In the north of Hamburg, no new single-family houses are to be allowed for the time being.
That was what the red-green coalition decided there.
And this is how the green district office chief Michael Werner-Boelz now wants to implement it, as he
recently explained
to the Hamburger
Morgenpost
.
There will be no new development plans “with individual houses”.
A Green model for other parts of Germany too?
At the request of
Merkur.de
, the Federal Green Party responded.
Greens before the federal election: Single-family house rule in Hamburg attracts attention - “dream of a house” passé?
Werner-Boelz himself had however also emphasized: “We do not want to ban single-family houses.” If you dream of your own house, you can ultimately buy an existing property.
His district, Hamburg-Nord, is “very dense” - and apartment buildings offer more space at lower costs.
Like Munich and many other large cities, Hamburg is affected by sharply rising real estate and rental prices.
For conservatives and liberals, however, the regulation was a hit.
"In Hamburg the green prohibitions have already
struck,
" wrote the
Focus
co-editor and Bavarian FDP member of the state parliament, Helmut Markwort, in a column: "The dream of many Germans of a house with a garden should not come true."
The Hamburg CDU also reacted angrily.
"In the Hanseatic city of Hamburg a dream of left-wing ideologues has come true," said the head of the local economic council, Hennecke Lütgerath, of the
Morgenpost
.
The SPD and the Greens had "clearly demonstrated their fundamental aversion to property for everyone".
And how does Werner-Boelz's federal party react?
After all, the Greens now and then have clear movements to withdraw from local politicians - as the case of Boris Palmer has shown.
Green tip reacts to the house debate in Hamburg - and does not rule out anything
At the request of
Merkur.de
, a party
spokeswoman
commented on the subject - and indicated that she was open to such ideas.
However, only at the right place: “Basically, the situation in the municipalities is very different,” it was said from the party headquarters, rather waiting.
On the one hand there are “places with vacancies and with space for single houses”.
In “metropolises”, on the other hand, solutions are sometimes “desperately” sought in order to cope with large influx and lack of space.
There, good and affordable living space must be made possible for families, especially in times of “exploding rents, space and property prices”.
The goal is “good and affordable living for the broadest of society”, in “city and country”.
So it cannot be ruled out that the topic will also become interesting for the Greens, at least in other large cities.
It also seems quite conceivable that the debate will not remain a purely red-green one.
Because even association representatives showed understanding for the regulation when asked by various media.
For example, the Association of North German Housing Companies told the NDR that in view of the large amount of space required, new single-family houses should be avoided in popular residential areas.
Welt.de
also
quoted
the chairman of the Hamburg property owners' association, Torsten Flomm
, as saying that single-family homes are having a hard time in the big city because living space is needed
.
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