Friday, September 2, 2011

"Make rents affordable,"

"Closing the gap sites and buildings to increase": Jutta Blankau has big plans. dpa

Woman senator, Hamburg has long complained about the fact that many young families moving into the countryside. What do you want to do about it? We naturally want to look for every venture capital opportunity in the city of Hamburg citizens. We now want to make the offer. We have increased amounts of land, including single-family homes to be created. For example, the site of the former Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne in Jenfeld, the former barracks in Rottiger Neugraben-Fischbek and the new center of Altona.

The SPD won the election with a promise to eliminate housing shortage and curb the rent increase. The Senate had already announced earlier. What do you do differently? Under the CDU was primarily a lack of affordable housing, which incidentally is just a problem for young families. Therefore, we have determined that by the 6000 new homes per year in 2000 sponsored by the city public.



Who will benefit? People with lower incomes, but also those with moderate incomes. That is about skilled workers who earn decent, but currently can not afford homes in good locations in Hamburg. We are, therefore, the income limit for subsidized housing, the use of 30 000 € gross per year to significantly increase. The exact amount is still not fixed.

Public housing alone will hardly solve the problem. Without private investors, it will not go. Therefore, we are an "Alliance for Living" with the housing industry, so private, but

also forge the cooperatives. In it we will all agree together to accelerate the construction of housing. Is also already signed an agreement with the target districts with agreements on the number of building permits. And we want to accelerate the construction method of official side, which private investors have always demanded.

The municipal housing company Saga / GWG want to re-enter their ideas into the new year and

1000 homes built. According to Saga company creates his head but not more than 500th It was only under the old conditions. Executed against the Saga chief now says, under the changed conditions, it also creates 1,000 apartments.

What conditions have improved? For example, the issue of land acquisition. We have changed the maximum price process, so that more land for affordable housing available. The future price in the award criterion is only one of several. We will identify building areas with the stipulation that there arises a third of social housing.

Where are the areas? Do not risk permanent conflicts with neighbors and conservationists? If we actually take time to complete a green area, then we will also provide a natural balance. The city is not paved over. Otherwise: First, the significant number of new buildings being built on land conversion. And secondly, we will condense in the inner city, as far as it goes. So close gaps between buildings and existing buildings increase.

The word "increase" traditionalists batting together. Should high-rises dominate the skyline of the city? No. It is important that we look at two stories may well get used more. I could find in order.

Hamburg is the city with the most rapidly rising rents in Germany. They promise to citizens to stop this development? At least I am confident that the rents remain stable if we are successful with our countermeasures. The publicly funded housing will dampen the overall trend in rental prices.