German FAZ: “The SPD has been ripped off” 008745

The Greens find “disastrous” in the Hessian state parliament of the state government’s housing policy. On Tuesday, they complained that 400 million euros were missing for social housing. For a long time, the Ministry of Economic Affairs had not granted any funding applications at all, said faction leader Mathias Wagner. Now thousands of social housing would have been less than possible. The SPD and CDU thus violate their coalition agreement. There it should be determined that funding applications should not be rejected for financial reasons. “In the past, there was no single project in social housing fails due to money,” said Wagner. The Economic Minister Kaweh Mansori (SPD) responsible for housing also admitted in the past session week of the parliament Funding exceeds around 400 million euros ”. The construction companies had registered about twice as many projects for funding as in the previous year because the funding conditions of the State of Hesse were so attractive. Therefore, a concentration of the new construction projects on tense housing markets, rural areas and university locations is necessary, according to Mansoori.OR A drop on the hot Steinwagner, the state government criticized the possibility of municipalities to prevent the conversion of rental into condominiums, for Want to abolish the end of the year. The approval of the approval worked. The number of conversions of rental into condominiums in downtown Frankfurt decreased by 80 percent. The law against speculative vacancy announced by Mansori was only a drop on the hot stone. “The SPD was ripped off,” says Wagner. Several effective instruments of tenant protection would be exchanged for a new one with a very limited effect. More on the subject of the leader of the parliamentary group pointed out that on Friday of this week in the Federal Council on the extension of the rental price brake would be coordinated. He asked the Hessian state government to vote for it. In addition, the possibility must be thwarted to bypass the rental price brake by offering furnished apartments. In addition to the actual rent, a furniture surcharge is charged in these cases. He could be misused to call out extremely high square meter prices. The rents for furnished living space would therefore give an outlook on what apartments could cost without the rental price brake in the future. From a study by the Immoscout portal, it is clear that 41 percent of all apartments on offer in Frankfurt reported, the housing -political spokeswoman for the Greens Martina Feldmayer reported . The state government must work at the federal level to close these regulatory gap.
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