Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - To alleviate the housing shortage, the NRW tenants' association is demanding that the state government set up a housing association. NRW Construction Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU) has sufficient funds for this, and "then you should go there in North Rhine-Westphalia and set up your own housing association," said Hans-Jochem Witzke, chairman of the NRW tenants' association, on Monday on WDR. "This also has the advantage that the many millions and billions remain in the public domain, i.e. with the citizens."
There are frequent complaints that Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) is not able to build the promised 400,000 apartments a year. "But the federal government doesn't have its own land on which to build, it has to take place in the municipalities and in the federal states, and in North Rhine-Westphalia very little happens," criticized Witzke.
In general, housing companies that do not make a profit should be promoted, for example cooperatives, but also municipal or church-affiliated companies for which the tenants are the priority.
