Dusseldorf (dpa / lnw) - At the start of the black-green coalition negotiations in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) called for no more new areas to be made available for new single-family home areas. The municipalities should instead receive guidelines and incentives for the greater use of other areas, the association announced on Tuesday. Above all, existing houses and other buildings should be increased.
Extreme weather such as the 2021 flood disaster or droughts and heat waves did not allow further land use, the BUND explained. It is not enough to reduce land consumption to five hectares per day "promptly", as the CDU and Greens propose in their exploratory paper. The CDU and the Greens had agreed to promote both public housing and property acquisition. The parties intend to consistently use brownfield sites in particular for new building sites.
The BUND called on the forthcoming black-green state government to work at federal level for the reintroduction of non-profit housing construction, regulation of the land market and for possibilities of easier expropriations and building obligations in the case of increases.
CDU and Greens want to start coalition negotiations for the possible first black-green government in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday afternoon in Düsseldorf.
