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The rent freeze is intended to prevent horrendous rent increases. When a contract is signed, the rent may not exceed the local comparative rent by more than 10 percent. The left see a need to catch up.
The federal government wants to provide the federal states with more money for social housing in the coming years. The Left Party is calling on Saxony to secure all federal funds through co-financing.
The federal government has announced that it will increase funding for social housing. Saxony could benefit from this with just under 150 million this year. However, 30 percent would have to be co-financed.
With a view to the new double budget, the Left Party is campaigning for more money for social housing. According to figures, there is a shortage of more than 11,000 social housing units in Saxony.
Until now, Saxony has supported local authorities in the demolition of permanently vacant residential buildings that can no longer be renovated. In view of empty coffers, this is now a thing of the past.
The construction of social housing in Saxony is on the decline. However, the problem of affordable housing in the state has not diminished.
Building is too expensive in Germany. Everyone agrees on this finding. Building type E is intended to lower high standards. However, there is still a lack of legal safeguards.
All parliamentary groups in the state parliament want more housing construction and less bureaucracy for new builds. However, possible ways out of the misery are judged differently.
The housing and energy industry in Saxony is critical of excessive regulation. The limits of resilience have been reached.
New year, old problems. The housing cooperatives in Saxony have been talking about the same old problems for a long time. It is difficult to spread a positive mood, says the association.
Sharp rent increases in Saxony are no longer limited to the metropolitan areas of Dresden and Leipzig. According to the Left Party, consideration must also be given to building social housing in the surrounding areas.
In growing cities like Dresden, apartments are becoming scarce. That is why the state capital now wants to step up the pace of housing construction.
No tenant should be stunned by their operating costs, says the Association of Saxon Housing Cooperatives. Politicians must therefore consider the issues of housing and energy together.
Despite a growing need for housing, building permits are falling drastically in some Saxon cities. Without more new construction, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz are threatened with considerable housing market bottlenecks.
The right to adequate housing is a human right. For many people, however, housing is hardly affordable, for example in large cities. The Left Party is calling for a rethink.
The BFW warns of a dramatic decline in building permits in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia of more than 28 percent. The reasons are rising construction costs and economic uncertainties.
The Left Party in the Saxon state parliament is calling for a change in the social housing construction system away from bureaucratic application procedures and towards non-profit housing.
The number of social housing units in Saxony rose by 452 to just under 13,000 last year. However, the demand is far higher. In a survey, local authorities reported a need for a good 11,000 additional social housing units. At 10,000, the shortage is by far the greatest in Dresden, according to the Mi ..
In some places, apartments are in short supply. On the other hand, some regularly fall victim to the wrecking ball - for example, if the vacancy rate is too high. But is that sensible? There are also doubts.
Should there be a perimeter development on Tempelhofer Feld? This is a particularly controversial topic in Berlin. The governing mayor has a clear opinion on the matter.
The announced state housing construction offensive in Bavaria is making little progress. Current figures paint a sobering picture.
The citizens' initiative "Mitmachstadt" is calling for the preservation of the two buildings in residential complex I, the first neighborhood to be built in Neustadt. However, the municipal housing association wants to take the largely empty blocks off the market.
The skilled trades and associations are appealing to the federal government to take action to save the construction and real estate industry in order to ensure affordable housing and achieve climate targets.
In Saxony, 557 social housing units were completed last year. This was announced by the state parliamentary group of the Left Party on Sunday. According to a response from the Saxon government to a small question from the faction's housing policy spokeswoman, Juliane Nagel, 297 of the new social hou ..