Germany needs 500,000 more apartments to house Ukrainian refugees

German opposition conservatives have said an additional 500,000 apartments are needed to house refugees fleeing the Ukraine war.

Jan Marco Lukak, a spokesman for construction and housing issues for the CDU/CSU bloc in the Bundestag in Berlin, told RND that such a number of new apartments can only be built quickly "if the law is simplified." Radically building, speeding up planning processes, and above all having limited construction costs.”

Real estate experts from the German Property Consortium came up with a figure of 500,000 last month, assuming that 1.29 million refugees from Ukraine would need a living space in Germany.

By last Sunday, German authorities had registered the entry of more than 376,000 Ukrainians since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.

However, since Ukrainians can enter Germany without a visa for 90 days and there are usually no established controls at the EU's internal borders, the exact number of war refugees is unknown.

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