There is dissatisfaction among CSU building politicians with Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU).
The reason is the draft law for the mobilization of building land, which was passed by the federal cabinet in November.
Seehofer had spoken of a "milestone" at the time.
Munich - When the Green parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter recently criticized the construction of single-family houses, CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt tried to use strong words: Once again, one sees the "ideological fight of the left-green against property".
Even more: The Greens would have discovered the home as an "enemy image".
That was in February.
Now, however, Dobrindt and the Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, who is responsible for housing, are facing very similar attacks from their own party.
He was "shocked" by the draft of the building land mobilization law, with which "a massive encroachment on property" would be possible, says the CSU state parliament member Jürgen Baumgärtner of our newspaper.
"You get the feeling that the Federal Minister of the Interior has a disturbed relationship with property."
"In the CSU, we cannot always pull on the Greens and then not make a CSU-led building policy ourselves." If necessary, the law must be stopped.
A member of parliament from Kronach leads the resistance
Baumgärtner has summarized the concerns of the CSU working group Housing, Construction and Transport in a five-page letter to CSU regional group leader Dobrindt.
Seehofer and CSU boss Markus Söder also received the letter.
"The measures presented only take very limited account of the original goal of activating building land and securing affordable housing, and thus far too little overall," says the letter that our editorial team has received.
Among other things, the proposal to draw up so-called sectoral development plans for inner city areas that were previously free of development plans is criticized.
In such areas, landowners usually have building permits, provided their building project blends in with the surrounding area.
According to the federal government, however, this is often used to create only “high-priced” living space.
The draft law, however, provides for a provision for more socially subsidized housing.
Baumgärtner refuses.
"This is not an instrument to create affordable housing," says the member of parliament from Kronach.
Disproportionate intrusion into property
Jürgen Baumgärtner
The draft law is said to have given in to “demands from the Greens, the SPD and the Left”
The MP also criticizes a ban on converting rental property into residential property or a mandatory permit requirement in areas with a tight housing market as being too extensive.
He also rejects new access options for municipalities when buying "slightly" developed land.
The municipality's right of first refusal should "not be exercised for the general procurement of residential building land," says the letter.
The bill gave in to "the demands of the Greens, the SPD and the Left".
If it were implemented, the CSU building politicians feared that the right of first refusal could be set at the significantly lower market value instead of the regular market value.
This would be “a disproportionate encroachment” on property, as guaranteed by the Basic Law.
Finally, Baumgärtner complains that so far there have been no signs of a reduction in certain noise limit values in order to remove obstacles to housing construction.
Baumgärtner suspects that this is apparently being sabotaged by the SPD.
Federal Minister of the Interior Seehofer had praised the draft law after it was passed in the cabinet at the beginning of November 2020 as a “milestone in housing policy”.
Baumgärtner sees it differently: The draft law must have "a clear Christian social signature".
Otherwise it would be better to forego the law entirely.
