Building Minister Geywitz also wants to enable non-profit companies such as Caritas to rent affordable living space. The Union considers this unnecessary. The left calls for more speed and money.
Union and Left have criticized Minister of Construction Klara Geywitz for her plans for more affordable housing. While the Union generally doubted the benefits of a new non-profit housing scheme on Thursday, the left-wing faction complained that not enough money had been planned for it. In the case of non-profit housing, landlords who provide permanently affordable housing should be given tax advantages and subsidies.
According to a key issues paper, which was first reported by the Funke media group, the SPD politician Geywitz wants to enable non-profit companies to act as landlords. Recently, the Diakonie and Caritas, among others, had pushed for such a regulation. It is still to be examined whether companies could also rent out only a certain part of their apartments for non-profit purposes. If five to ten percent of the portfolio were permanently given away cheaply, tax breaks would be conceivable.
Left-wing MP Caren Lay criticized the fact that Geywitz only presented key points and no draft law. So that will not happen with the introduction in this legislature, she told the editorial network Germany. “A law must be passed before the end of this year and a funding program of 20 billion euros a year must be launched,” Lay demanded.
Union MP Jan-Marco Luczak is critical of the concept of non-profit housing. There are already many companies that offer apartments at affordable prices. “Legal forms that are only allowed to rent to tenants of certain income groups always harbor the risk of neighborhoods falling into social imbalances.”
Source: Stern
