When he took office in February 2020, the Green politician Michael Werner-Boelz, head of the Hamburg-Nord district, declared that he no longer wanted to allow a new single-family home in his district.
The excitement was great, nationwide.
A home ownership ban?
Unheard of.
What Werner-Boelz does in Hamburg-Nord could become the standard in urban planning nationwide.
First in metropolitan areas, but at some point also in rural regions.
In small steps, the single-family house is declared an environmental problem.