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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament wants to create more barrier-free living space with changed building regulations.
In the coming plenary week, a corresponding bill is to be introduced into parliament, as the housing policy spokeswoman Elke Barth announced on Wednesday in Wiesbaden.
Background are demands of the VdK and other social associations.
The building regulations were changed in 2018.
"Although this new regulation leads to more barrier-free living space in buildings with six or more floors, it deteriorates in all other new buildings that are below this number of floors," explained Barth.
This applies in particular to rural areas, where residential buildings with six or more storeys are the exception.
According to the proposal of the SPD parliamentary group, in future at least 20 percent of the new apartments in an apartment building should be barrier-free - but in principle the apartments on one floor.
"We are thus combining the advantages of the previous regulation, which stipulated accessibility for smaller residential units, with the new regulation, which leads to more barrier-free living space in larger units," explained Barth.
She pointed out that around 80,000 barrier-free apartments were missing across Hesse.
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