From BZ/dpa
After the presentation of the report of the expert commission on the expropriation of large housing companies, Berlin’s building senator Christian Gaebler (SPD) wants to start work on an implementation law this year.
“The report is 153 pages long, we’ll take our time to look at it,” said Gaebler on Wednesday evening in the RBB “Abendschau”. “But we will certainly start working on the law this year.”
This applies both to a social framework law, “as agreed in the coalition”, and to an “implementation law for the housing sector”, which is to be developed in parallel.
In the end, the government would then have to decide how to deal with the legal risks associated with such a law. “If we come to the conclusion that this is also sustainable and affordable, then I think that’s right,” emphasized Gaebler with a view to the implementation law.
In view of the great housing shortage in the capital, the majority of the population voted in a referendum in 2021 for the expropriation of large housing groups with more than 3000 apartments.
In its final report, a commission of experts set up by the government coalition at the time came to the conclusion that such a measure was legally possible and compatible with the Basic Law.
The Senate had previously stated that it initially did not want to draw up a law on implementation, but only a framework law on socialisation.