Marja Santana Glanz has a secure job and now with her three children something that is even more difficult to find in the Munich area. She has an affordable four-room apartment with a view of the countryside. The whole thing close to the S-Bahn in Haar and with a reputable landlord who is not just out for profit. The head of the supervisory board of your landlord and top employer personally came to hand over the key to your apartment. District President Josef Mederer (CSU) looked at the clerk’s apartment in the Upper Bavaria district and wished her all the best in the new home during a short conversation on the balcony.
The district of Upper Bavaria is a large employer. In Haar, in particular, he employs numerous people in very different professions at the Isar-Amper-Klinik. In order to be able to offer these employees apartments, the district has its own housing association, Oberbayerische Heimstätte (OH). This is based in Haar and has been creating living space on a large scale on the site of a former clinic for some time. More new buildings have now been erected in the park-like area on the so-called apple meadow, in which the district has secured housing rights for its own employees.
Seven buildings with 115 new apartments have been erected in the southern area of the art nouveau park. The first 55 apartments will be ready for occupancy on July 1st, with another 60 to follow in August. The OH is a public welfare-oriented housing company owned by the district of Upper Bavaria, the district announced. “If we want to continue to fulfill our demanding tasks in the district and the KBO clinics in the future, we will continue to need committed employees,” said District President Mederer when the keys were handed over. Unfortunately, there are hardly any affordable apartments left in the Munich metropolitan area. But the district has a “joker in hand”. Taking on a job with the district is highly attractive because the district can offer attractive living space. Above all, nursing staff and clerks who do not have top earnings “will benefit enormously from the offer”.
The district has occupancy rights for a period of 25 years. It can cost up to a maximum of seven million euros. The sum is variable and depends on whether the apartments are rented out permanently to employees of the two employers. “We’re investing heavily here,” emphasized Mederer. “I am convinced that every cent is well invested. Because our employees are very valuable to us.”
The package includes apartments for people with lower earnings with a subsidy of 25 percent of the rental costs and those whose rent is only subsidized by the district with five percent. This results in square meter prices that are well below the level of the Munich and Haarer rent index. In total there are 115 apartments with a total living space of 7520 square meters – from one-room apartments to four-room family apartments. OH Managing Director Michael Zaigler said when the keys were handed over to the first resident: “Especially in the Munich metropolitan area, we need good and reliable care for people.” Nursing staff are extremely important for this. And especially these would be supported with the apartments, like clerks in the district.