Deutsche-Wohnen-in-chief : Defame or Expropriate help a single tenant

The managing Director of Deutsche Wohnen, Michael Zahn, fought back against the accusation that the business practices of his company, the housing crisis worsened. "When we talk of housing shortage, this is mainly due to the influx of people into the cities," writes Tooth in a guest post for the daily mirror.

The tight supply in the housing market. Especially apartments in rent-controlled and publicly funded Segment and the width of the middle were missing on the market, writes Tooth. "The best answer to this development is new construction."

The policy meet but to blame the fact that there is not enough new housing is created, the Manager writes. "Sadly, projects fail all too often to the interests of individuals and that processes are deliberately delayed." As an example, a Tooth for a construction project in the Berlin district of Westend, where the group is aiming for six years, the construction of 600 apartments. "We had everything negotiated, everything was cut and dried. Since then, however, nothing happens, because the requirements of the district and country now also. We can't get more.“

At the same time, he warned of the plans of an Initiative to expropriate large property companies such as Deutsche Wohnen: "Lament, defame or expropriate helps not a single tenant."

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to order, in Principle, the group's chief in the capital still sees plenty of potential Area for new housing. "Berlin has very many well-connected, and fully developed land, on which a gentle compression arises with a contemporary sustainable new building."

Deutsche Wohnen CEO Michael Zahn.Photo: promo

Teeth set, also, against Considerations of the state government, a rent cover. To live a "good and worthy of human beings, is for each of us is important. But it must be achieved also without distinction - regardless of the income of the tenants - the apartment costs are the same for everyone?“, asks Tooth. And pushes the answer immediately afterwards: "The Rent for the better Verdi not with a great deal of legal expense to lids, contributes to social justice and creates not only affordable housing."

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