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Plans from red-green-red: Association sees light and shadow

2021-10-24T08:06:53.369Z


Berlin's housing industry welcomes the approach of Red-Green-Red to focus on cooperation rather than confrontation in housing policy. However, the association also sees a very big problem.


Berlin's housing industry welcomes the approach of Red-Green-Red to focus on cooperation rather than confrontation in housing policy.

However, the association also sees a very big problem.

Berlin - The Berlin housing industry sees light and shadow in the plans of the SPD, Greens and Left in housing policy.

The proposed “alliance for new residential construction and affordable housing” is positive and could certainly provide new impetus, said Maren Kern, board member of the BBU Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Housing Companies, the German Press Agency.

This means that there is a chance that municipal, cooperative and private companies will agree on achievable housing construction goals with the Senate and districts.

Such a cooperation instead of confrontation could also have an atmospheric effect.

"I think that's very important."

At the same time, however, Kern sees the danger that the ongoing discussion about the expropriation of large real estate groups would block such an alliance.

"At the moment I still lack the imagination to imagine how a housing alliance starts with verve and people talk to each other, and in the next room they negotiate how part of the housing company can be expropriated."

From Kern's point of view, goals, agreements and commitments within the framework of an alliance are always subject to reservation in view of the "sword of Damocles expropriation". In addition, the foreseeable long-term debate about the implementation of the successful referendum will continue to be an obstacle to investment. “As long as there is a threat of expropriations, companies will not be interested in increasing their housing stocks in Berlin. That would be very restrictive for an alliance for housing construction. "

In the referendum parallel to the Bundestag and House of Representatives elections on September 26, 57.6 percent of voters voted for the expropriation of corporations with more than 3,000 apartments.

39.8 percent voted no.

It is true that the vote for socialization - i.e. expropriation for compensation - is not legally binding.

The three future coalition partners, however, want to set up a commission of experts to examine the "possibilities, ways and prerequisites for implementation" and to develop recommendations for further action by the Senate within a year.

The topic is one of the most controversial between the SPD, the Greens and the Left.

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According to Kern, the time frame for the commission is too long.

"Most of the legal facts are on the table, and the economic impact is well known," she said, explaining her stance.

"We have no knowledge problem, so such a commission would have to come to a result much faster." In Kern's opinion, this can only be: "An expropriation law is constitutionally not possible for several reasons."

Kern sees a question mark in the goal formulated by the SPD, the Greens and the Left to build 20,000 apartments a year for ten years.

Earlier Senates would have named this number and not reached it.

"That must now be supported in the coalition negotiations," demanded Kern.

Simplified procedures and shorter deadlines for planning and implementing projects are an important prerequisite for more and faster housing construction at the federal and state level.

Berlin also needs an administrative reform with digitized processes and clear responsibilities instead of “shifting responsibilities back and forth”.

dpa

Source: merkur

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