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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The German Tenants' Association calls for more affordable living space in North Rhine-Westphalia.
"The number of social housing is steadily decreasing," said the state chairman Hans-Jochem Witzke of the German press agency in Düsseldorf.
"This means that urgently needed affordable living space for which there is no substitute is lost."
This Thursday (10.30 a.m.), NRW Construction Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU) will present the annual balance sheet for public housing subsidies 2020 in Düsseldorf.
In the previous year, she found that almost every third municipality in NRW had not called up any public funds in 2019.
It was to be expected that the 1.1 billion euro funding budget had not been exhausted again, Witzke predicted.
"This trend has been evident for years: fewer price-controlled apartments are built every year than apartments fall outside of the social network."
The state government urgently needs to take countermeasures here and create more attractive subsidy conditions for rental housing.
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According to a scientific forecast prepared for the NRW building ministry and presented last November, over a million new apartments will be required in NRW by 2040.
Most recently, around 46,000 new apartments were built annually in NRW.
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