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New housing estate on the outskirts of Heldburg (archive picture): »You have to reduce the amount of space you use«
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In a SPIEGEL interview, Anton Hofreiter expressed doubts about the sense of new single-family homes.
From the CDU, SPD and FDP there was harsh criticism of the Green parliamentary leader at the weekend (read more here).
But now he gets support in the debate from the chairman of the Left Party.
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Left boss Riexinger
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"You have to reduce land consumption, for social reasons and for reasons of climate protection," said Bernd Riexinger to the editorial network in Germany.
"That is why we cannot continue with the single-family houses as before." Instead, plots of land have to be built on in such a way that more apartments are created, "above all more affordable apartments," said Riexinger.
He jumped at Hofreiter with it.
He had said: "One-party houses consume a lot of space, a lot of building materials, a lot of energy, they cause urban sprawl and thus even more traffic." Municipalities (read the interview here).
In cities there is a "gigantic housing shortage", in other regions the value of houses is "plummeting".
The background to this is the decision by a green district office manager in Hamburg-Nord, according to which no single-family houses are included in new development plans.
The Thuringian CDU state chairman Christian Hirte accused Hofreiter of a "disturbed relationship to property and the reality of life in rural areas."
The president of the Haus & Grund owners' association, Kai Warnecke, spoke of “pure ideology”.
The Greens had rejected allegations at the weekend that they wanted to ban the construction of single-family homes across the board.
"The claims are wrong," said a parliamentary group spokesman for the news agency dpa.
»Our own four walls are important for many people - this includes a single family home.
That will continue to exist in the future - like row houses, apartment buildings, apartment buildings. "
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