“Building and Housing is a social issue of our time when she announced her plan to help reduce the lack of cheap homes,” the new construction and home minister of Germany Verena Huberts told public broadcaster ARD in May.
Spending at the housing is one of the focal points, with a cabinet set to submit its 2026 budget proposal on 30 July.
In a country where it may take longer to obtain approval for the development project, as it does to make real construction, Huberts said that the local authorities to give the local authorities to give “Cruubers” to urban urban planning laws. The Crobber, called “Bau-Turbo”, is to be inserted into a new paragraph () 246E).
If the law is passed in the case, the municipalities will be approved for construction, change-changes and renewal projects that are distracted by the commission’s commission if the toes projects are for the construction of new residential buildings.
Planning applications want to be automatically approved after two months until the municipality is veto.
Construction regulations vary between 16 states and municipalities of Germany, resulting in an increasing patchwork of rules, which controls everything from the number of electric sockets in the room to the size and color of the roofs.
The Ministry of Construction has estimated its legislative amendment, which will be passed in a decline by Bundestag, rescuing companies, citizens and local authorities around € 2.5 billion ($ 2.9 billion) annually.
On ‘occasion’, not overnight
Federal Construction Industry (HDB) managing director Tim-Oliver Muller said that he welcomed the government’s plans, but he warned that the housing construction “Wild Not Pick Up Apties.”
“The law alone will not give results in a new apartment, but it will be easy for local authorities to approve them,” Muller told DW.
Hey, “Mailing of Crisis” has killed Germany’s manufacturing industry, roughly invasions on the full scale of Russia’s Ukraine, rising prices of energy, rising costs of materials as concrete and steel, jumping into interest rates below 3% and 4%.
Muller is sure that new changes in law will not reduce quality standards – for example, about fire safety and structural integrity, which live in place.
The new law is “purely creation of possibilities, for example, in relation to making extensions or changing the designation of land from commercial to residential, it was not possible before,” Muller explained.
Lots of hot air?
Environmentalists have expressed concern over making planning rules easier because they fear that green spaces will be built as new development projects are waved with less time to local residents.
“We can buffer only with green spaces [heatwaves]Because thesis green space provides active cooling, “Stephen Petzold Nabu from the Nature Conservation Association told ARD.
Another concerned about hot air, Mathius Gunthir, is the head of the Pastel Institute, which researches the fields such as economy and housing for public and private sectors. He prepared the new law as “very hot air”, which “would not get in any way in the short term.”
“Additional paragraphs and squares will be added to the building code, which will create more bureaucracy. Some things will require the municipal consent, and, especially when it comes to the building, they often get the majority deapp, which does not do so,” Gunthar told DW.
Hey that Germany requires an economic incentive package for housing construction starting in this case, as well as with a loan program with interest rates at 2% for the next 20 years.
Economist Maithius Gunthhar believes, “The city passes on its more favorable credit situations. It will spend a lot. Everyone says that if they get funding at 2%, they will start construction again,” Economist Mathyas Gunthhar believes that a similar plan was already successful in Poland.
Very low house and low solution
Bernard Phaller from the Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (VHW) says that the desperate shortage of housing is one of the main reasons, which has exploded in large German cities. More than half of Germany lives in rented housing residence, the highest stake in the European Union.
While Germany has some of the world’s strongest tenant protection laws, the faler said that laws work to protect the existing tenants and re -work who want or need to move, especially young people and large families. “Remains the same: there are very few houses to meet the demand,” he told DW.
Construction turbo plans are a “very exciting experiment” according to the pole.
“Until we come with some batter, and I can’t think of anything better, the key to reducing the overheet housing market, to curb the rising, to build more affordable housing,” said Heer.
According to the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urbon Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), Germany wants about 320,000 new homes in 2030 every year.
The previous federal government, which lost its majority in the February 2025 election, promised to build 400,000 houses annually. But by 2024, this figure was just 251,900, 14.4% below the previous year.
The new alliance of Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Center-Left Social Democrats (SPD )’s center-right block is planning to increase the budget of the Ministry of Construction for 2025 for the last year by 6.7 billion BC.
This money will be invested in the construction of social home-subsidy apartments for a low-income family, projects for climate-friendly construction, converting commercial areas into residential areas and promoting home and house for youth family.
Edited by Reena Goldenburg
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