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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - According to the Association of North German Housing Companies (VNW), federal policy should take an example from northern Germany when it comes to housing.
Around 75,000 apartments have been built in Hamburg since 2011.
"The success is measurable: In the Hanseatic city, normal prices are now rising faster than rents," said association director Andreas Breitner on Monday with a view to the federal government's balance sheet planned for Tuesday on its housing offensive, which has been running for two years.
In Kiel, on the other hand, the government let the rent brake and the cap expire.
"At the same time, spending on building affordable apartments was increased, which in the end will have a positive effect on the housing market."
And the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has not remained inactive and has set up a fund with the help of which municipalities and municipal housing companies can repay old GDR debts.
“The companies invest the money saved in modern apartments,” said Breitner.
More bureaucracy and more legal interventions, however, did not lead to new apartments.
"The Berlin rent cover shows this vividly."
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