An overheated rental market, overpriced properties and hardly any way out of the price spiral: how can average earners continue to be able to afford rent or even own property? A conversation with construction politician Michael Kießling.
Interviewed by
Florian Zick, Starnberg
When Michael Kießling graduated as a civil engineer in 1998, you couldn’t have guessed it. The great construction boom had not yet begun. Back then, as an architect, you earned just as much as a draftsman. Today, on the other hand, concrete is like gold. And although the region has only been building, building, building for years, many average earners are now finding it extremely difficult to find an affordable home. This means a lot of work for Kießling (CSU), a member of the Bundestag, because the 48-year-old has been a member of the building committee since last autumn and has been responsible for housing and building.