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Munich (dpa / lby) - The Bavarian housing cooperatives see the “regulatory thicket” as the biggest brake on housing construction.
According to the Association of Bavarian Housing Companies (VdW Bayern), 73 percent of the member companies see themselves being slowed down by too many ordinances and regulations in construction.
"The resulting additional planning effort is the biggest construction brake for Bavaria's housing industry," said association director Hans Maier on Wednesday.
491 socially oriented Bavarian housing companies are united in VdW Bayern, including 354 housing cooperatives and 103 municipal housing companies.
They manage around 540,000 apartments in which one fifth of all Bavarian tenants live.
The constantly increasing technical requirements, such as ventilation and heating, are also major hurdles for new residential buildings.
The procurement of suitable land is a major problem for 68 percent of companies willing to build, and a lack of building tradesmen for 60 percent.
Nevertheless, in 2021 the VdW member companies want to largely stick to their construction and modernization projects planned before the pandemic and are expected to invest over two billion euros in inexpensive living space in the Free State.
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The work on the construction sites went relatively well in 2020, with "average delays of around four months - you can still live with that," said Maier.
“Over 80 percent of housing companies want to make their investments for 2021 exactly as they were planned before the pandemic.
Almost 10 percent tell us that in the coming year they will actually spend more money than originally planned. "
These investments are also urgently needed because the demand for living space has not decreased.