From Hildburg Bruns
A year ago, the Senate celebrated the forged rental alliance with landlords, investors and associations. What has it brought so far? BZ checks the results.
RENTAL: Large companies undertook to give every third free apartment to WBS owners. Result: Vonovia and Deutsche Wohnen fulfilled this in the first quarter of 2023 with 718 of 1752 re-lettings (40 percent). Other private/church companies only 11 percent, cooperatives 14 percent, municipal companies 63 percent.
INCREASE: Vonovia, Deutsche Wohnen and state companies had frozen rents in 2022 as promised. Other (e.g. eagle) – not specified.
NEW CONSTRUCTION: By the end of 2026, 100,000 are to be completed, 20,000 per year. The alliance has managed 17,310 so far in 2022.
SOCIAL HOUSING: Instead of the targeted 5,000, 2,422 were completed by the municipal companies and 59 by the private companies.
EXCHANGE: In 2022, only 765 people changed homes within their own company and 237 times they exchanged homes directly with municipal companies.
Conclusion: All alliance partners have stayed the course.
Investors are concerned about the planned framework law on expropriations, which could degenerate into a brake on new construction. After the successful referendum (“expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co”), the CDU/SPD Senate wants to tackle it.
The governing Kai Wegner (50, CDU) is skeptical: “We have to be careful. There are question marks there.”