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Germany needs homes. But one thing stands in the way: the madness of construction law.
    Comment by Gerhard Matzig
    On Youtube is the spot of Realty World, the Internet portal for apartment seekers, clicked a million times. You, a smart young woman, looks at her cell phone in the office. A message. She rushes off. And he, a smart young man looks, on the parking deck on his cell phone. Chase off. Now, from the clip a turbo accelerated blend of "Matrix", "James Bond" and "Mission Impossible". Man and woman chasing each other in style delirious trail runners. You overcome balconies, jumping from rooftops, climb facades. At the end one learns why: "Old building, 3 rooms".
    "A world of home": given the song "Home" and the Immowelt slogan is heard.One has to these days are not at Munich Central Station have been or in the Hungarian Röszke, where policemen have thrown the refugees food, as they fed cattle; you just have to see this spot in order to understand: The world is not full of home - the world is full of real estate, to which one must fight.
    The Housing is evidenced by all the living magazines not only the great fetish of our Cocooning era, but also an existential commodity. The lack of housing is therefore an epochal challenge. When finally "living as the major task for the future" (Wolfgang Bosbach) understands the policy under the influence of the refugee crisis, one can only ask: Have you already noticed that too? But it's not just about the question of how, where and at what price Migrants in Europe to accommodate. It is about the global catastrophe apartment total.

    The policy will do anything to impede housing

    Given the urbanization experts see in the next 15 years a demand of one billion additional apartments worldwide (German Bank Research). And according to a new study by the Pestel Institute annually 400 000. apartments would be built in Germany alone. In the spring, the Federal Institute for Building, spatial and urban research of 270 000 units is assumed. "Real", so the real estate newspaper,"are likely to be completed by year-end 260 000 dwellings."
    What is a solution in the way? In Germany, especially: the madness of construction law. If any standard in the construction an apartment, so the problem would be half solved. So much living space in such a short time at a reasonable price: this is only to provide, if the sometimes absurd standards for new buildings will be significantly reduced. Moreover, reuse is the (ecologically interesting) order of the day. Also you would have to think about the square-claims of obese living world. In addition, a living culture (Dad, Mom, and a half children - and the car in the garage next to the lawn mower), which has nothing to do with the social developments and the recoding of public and private zones.

    That is why construction is so expensive

    But the real price drivers are the construction standards. Instead, the rent brake adopted under effort a brake of DIN standards, EU directives, federal regulations, state laws and municipal obligations would have been more effective. According to construction costs index, the construction of a typical apartment building has risen by 36 percent since 2000th
    The amendment to the Energy Saving Ordinance, the building will rise by a further seven per cent from 2016th The policy now calls for more cheap housing (for refugees, apartment seekers, students...); it does, however, for many years by the standard-madness on the one hand and the privatization of public housing companies on the other hand everything that housing in Germany is exactly what the Immowelt spot illustrates: combat zone.
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