housing
Scholz holds a housing summit – meeting with the construction minister
Next week, a housing summit should focus on promoting affordable housing. Chancellor Scholz invited more than 30 partners. The appointment is now cancelled.
The housing summit planned for the beginning of December under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will no longer take place after the traffic light coalition broke up. The meeting of representatives from politics, business and civil society will instead be chaired by Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD), as a spokeswoman for the ministry announced. “With a view to the shortened legislative period, the planned alliance day with the Federal Chancellor on December 6, 2024 will take place as part of a top meeting led by the Federal Construction Minister,” she said. The “Handelsblatt” had previously reported.
According to the business newspaper, the summit was actually supposed to take place in Hamburg. The meeting location is now the Ministry of Construction in Berlin. In addition, the top round will be scheduled for December 5th, the spokeswoman said.
The SPD politician Geywitz founded the “Affordable Housing Alliance”. It has more than 30 members from politics, the construction industry, trade unions, the housing industry, development banks and tenants’ associations. The alliance last met in the Chancellery in 2023.
Real estate and construction associations have long been accusing the federal government of a failed housing policy, as the traffic light coalition has missed its self-imposed target of 400,000 new apartments per year for years. Last year, almost 295,000 apartments were completed nationwide.
dpa
Source: Stern
