BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Housing and tenant protection associations are calling for better conditions for employee housing in view of the shortage of skilled workers and the housing shortage in some regions. Providing the company’s own employees with their own apartments is one way to address the shortage of skilled workers and affordable housing, argued the Economy Makes Living association on Monday.
The alliance presented a study by the RegioKontext Institute, which cited examples in which companies provide their employees with new living space. “The factory housing construction has relieved pressure on the housing markets for decades,” it says. “We wanted to take up this concept in a modernized form and bring it back into the discussion.”
In order to support companies in such projects, the associations believe that the federal, state and local governments have to make additional adjustments. The federal government needs tax support for the construction of new employee apartments in the form of special depreciation. Municipalities, in turn, would have to facilitate the conversion of mixed areas into urban areas in order to enable a higher proportion of housing and a higher building density.
The alliance includes the Federal Association of German Building Materials Trade, the Federal Association of Independent Real Estate and Housing Companies, the German Society for Masonry and Housing Construction, the German Tenants’ Association, the Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies and the Central Association of the German Construction Industry./maa/ DP/ngu