The Germans are against Wohnraumschutzsatzungen!

Cologne News - 02.03.2016

We are delighted to read a recent press release: According to this, over 68% of Germans voted against the "housing protection statutes", "alienation laws" and other extremely questionable statutes of various cities such as Example: Cologne, Hamburg, Munich or Münster.

These laws and statutes issued by the cities (ie at the lowest legal level) may be unethical in our view. The strongest and most active is currently the city of Berlin in this matter and has presumably for this reason already received some lawsuits against themselves and their statutes. We keep our fingers crossed for the landlords of holiday apartments there and hope that these statutes will finally come to an end.

landlords should be made a scapegoat!

The large number of citizens interviewed are convinced that these statutes will change nothing on the existing housing situation in the cities. Ultimately, the share of apartments in the cities is so small (we are in the bottom, single-digit percentage range) that this has no impact at all on the housing market. Maybe the failed housing policy of the individual cities could rather be the reason for that. Once again, only a scapegoat is wanted and politicians have - cleverly - found in the apartments . But more than 70% of those surveyed do not believe in it and therefore we have a clear appeal for politics: Stop this unjust and opaque compulsory belt for landlords who ultimately make sure that the tourists in the city are well!

There has always been a furnished rental. It used to be called different! Terms like "guest rooms" or "guest rooms" are out of fashion. Today one speaks only of apartments. What do you call this type of rental in 10 years?

Distraction maneuver of politics?

Basically, it seems to us like a clever distraction of politics ? Can one express this presumption? Could it be that such a deliberate distraction should be made of the failed housing policy in some cities? Finally, in many cities there was the situation that simply too few apartments were built. Maybe too few building permits were issued or the burdens of the bureaucracy in Germany are just too high and so some investors are deterred who would otherwise build a multi-family house?

In Cologne too few building permits

In the city of Cologne, for example, far too few building permits are issued. Quite simply formulated: In the cathedral city, much more would have to be built to master the influx at all! But this does not happen! More and more people want to move to Cologne, but do not find enough housing supply! Another problem is, of course, the fact that everyone wants to live in the city center or as close as possible ... and of course that is no longer possible, because the apartments are just occupied!