17:10 min, talk by Andrew Waugh in March 2020.
The federal government wants to significantly increase its spending on climate protection and the promotion of affordable housing in the coming year. "This is a key concern for the federal government, but also for me personally," emphasised Federal Minister Barbara Hendricks at the start of the Bundestag debate on her ministry's budget. According to the federal government's draft budget, the budget of the BMUB will grow to over four billion euros next year. Against the backdrop of rising refugee numbers, Hendricks pointed out that the federal government, federal states and municipalities are called upon to create more affordable housing. Significantly more money must be invested in social housing and affordable housing. The largest item in Hendricks' budget is therefore housing benefit, for which an increase of 200 million euros to 730 million euros has been estimated.
According to the draft federal budget for 2016, the overall budget for the BMUB to around 4.07 billion euros. This is around 205 million euros or 5.3 per cent more than in the current year. In addition to the housing allowance, funding for international climate protection projects, for research in the areas of the environment, construction and housing as well as for urban development funding has increased in particular. In addition, the BMUB 859 million over the next three years from the newly launched Future Investment Programme. This money will be used in particular for the national climate protection initiative, model projects for the construction of sustainable student and trainee accommodation, national urban development projects, the refurbishment of municipal facilities and age-appropriate housing.
Hendricks emphasised that there is a need for affordable housing in society as a whole. The influx of refugees is just one reason. Hendricks: "As a state, we have a responsibility to ensure that there is enough affordable housing available for everyone." This is why housing benefit will also be significantly increased from January. Around 590,000 people currently receive housing benefit. More people will be able to benefit from the increase next year. The BMUB assumes that the number of recipients will increase to around 870,000.
The minister put the need for new homes per year at at least 350,000. Hendricks: "It is absolutely clear that we need to invest significantly more money in social housing. I have therefore proposed at least doubling the compensation payments to the federal states totalling 518 million euros per year over the next few years." Hendricks was confident that this could be realised during the parliamentary deliberations on the 2016 budget. The Minister also proposed the temporary and regionalised reintroduction of declining balance depreciation. Hendricks: "We need the commitment of private investors. They should also help to provide rental flats in the affordable segment."
In order to provide additional support to the federal states and local authorities in the provision of refugee accommodation, the international climate protection initiative will play a central role. As part of the International Climate Initiative, investments to protect the climate and biodiversity will be increased by over 75 million euros to more than 338 million euros. Overall, Germany will double its international climate financing by 2020 and provide four billion euros by then.
Source (accessed 14/09/2015): www.bmub.bund.de/.../hendricks-wir-koennen-noch-staerker-in-die-zukunft-investieren/
Keywords:
DE-News, Funding, Climate protection, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy
"Housing: How is it better?" the story WDR by Justine Rosenkranz and Sara Wendhack.
Report
44 min, available until: 4.9.2020
https://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/video/die-story/wohnen-wie-geht-es-besser/…
Topics and Projects:
- Old velvet weaving mill in Krefeld
- Community housing project (cohousing) in Düren, 200 apartments in 7 buildings
- Student housing with seniors
- Cologne: Municipal housing policy for affordable housing. Increases in storeys, building communities
Keywords:
Cohousing, DE-News, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Communities, Media, News Blog NRW, Affordable housing, Social / Culture, Housing, Housing policy, Housing projects
The tenants' electricity campaign financed by the Hessian Ministry of Economics is entering its second round until 2020.
Info:
www.solarserver.de/...mieterstrom-in-hessen...
Keywords:
Renewable, Tenant electricity, News Blog Hesse
22 municipalities across Germany will develop and implement a climate protection master plan with funding from the Federal Environment Ministry. The so-called master plan municipalities unite the goal of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 95 percent by 2050 and halving their final energy consumption compared to 1990. In Schleswig-Holstein, the region of Flensburg and the state capital Kiel are among the funded regions.
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks: "The pioneer municipalities are strong partners for us in the fight against climate change. They prove that long-term development towards 100 percent climate protection is feasible. To achieve this, the municipalities must involve their citizens and local businesses and pull together with them."
Commenting on the projects in Schleswig-Holstein, Hendricks said: "For us, the Flensburg region is the prototype for the transformation of a rural region. Its proximity to the city of Flensburg, which is also a Masterplan municipality, can show important examples of ambitious climate protection in an urban-rural relationship.
The Masterplan municipality of Kiel will play an important role in municipal climate protection, as it can lead the way ambitiously, especially in climate protection in ferry and cruise ship traffic. Its activities and goals so far suggest that we can expect a lot from Kiel."
The 22 new master plan municipalities will be supported and intensively monitored over a period of four years with funding totalling 12 million euros as part of the National Climate Protection Initiative of the Federal Environment Ministry. With their ambitious climate protection goals, they have a great impact as beacons of municipal climate protection.
In their first year of the project, the Masterplan municipalities will create a Masterplan that will show them the way to decarbonise the local economy and society by 2050 and set out measures for short-, medium- and long-term implementation. With their funding application, the Masterplan municipalities have submitted a resolution from their highest body that affirms the Masterplan goals.
At the heart of the project are the master plan managers, who ensure that structures are created both within and outside the administration during the project period that establish climate protection in the municipality.
The 22 new Masterplan municipalities are: Region Flensburg/Amt Eggebek, State Capital Kiel, University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Administrative Districts Hameln-Pyrmont with Schaumburg and Holzminden, Flecken Steyerberg, City of Emden, Administrative District Lüchow-Dannenberg, Zweckverband Großraum Braunschweig, State Capital Potsdam, State Capital Magdeburg, District of Lippe, City of Rietberg, City of Beckum, City of Münster, District of Gießen, Municipality of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, State Capital Mainz, District of Cochem-Zell, City of Kaiserslautern, Municipality of Birkenfeld, State Capital Stuttgart and District of Oberallgäu.
BMUB PM from 14.07.2016
Keywords:
DE-News, Climate protection, Environmental policy
