In Haar there is a monstrous and by no means proven accusation in the room: the suspicion of the special economy. For months there has been talk behind closed doors about giving an apartment to a local restaurateur. This feeds the suspicion that things are not going well in the town hall and damages the credibility of politics. Even if the suspicion is not proven at all at the moment and the presumption of innocence applies.
Mayor Andreas Bukowski (CSU) remains nothing other than to escape to the front. He must clarify the process as much as possible and create absolute transparency about the allocation of municipal, discounted apartments. Two things are clear: The mayor has not come very far in the investigation since the SPD brought the matter to the table on Tuesday with a motion in the local council. And Bukowski is not solely responsible for the misery.
Because even under his SPD predecessor, when the coveted communal apartments were awarded, the call was repeatedly loud that something had not gone correctly. That can certainly not be prevented entirely. The housing market is highly competitive. There are always disappointed people left behind. Clarification is also made more difficult for the town hall by the fact that personal rights must be preserved when allocating apartments. But it is now becoming apparent that a basic evil in hair has persisted for longer: there is a lack of transparency in advance. Only then do speculations and suspicions arise. The award criteria must therefore urgently be made easily accessible to everyone. The mayor now wants to make up for that.
But that won’t be enough in the current situation. The case is too bizarre. A family that is considered to be well-off in Haar and drives a car with high horsepower receives a cheap apartment from the community. If this family is eligible for a surcharge – and there is no reasonable doubt about that at the moment – that shows how much the housing market is out of whack. Perhaps there is also something wrong with the award criteria. The subject remains on the agenda.