Anyone who thinks that the Bavarian Ministry of Building is called the Ministry of Building because it has to build is wrong. It really has to count, which is why it should be called the Ministry of Counting. It tries to count houses and properties that are no longer there or are lying around unused, whether sold or vacant. In Hartmannshofen, the garden city under the old trees, they can’t stop counting. Last Thursday, this Munich residential forest was once again an issue in the state parliament, the budget committee wanted to know how things are going where the majority of the land still belongs to the Free State.
The census ministry sent a ministerial counselor with a clear message: You don’t know what’s going to happen either. It was really not to be expected that a Green member of parliament would also want to know how many of the formerly state-owned properties the state government has already sold. But again the answer from the ministry was clear and honest: “I can’t tell you,” so you have to count first. Since then, one counts in the house of CSU Minister Christian Bernreiter.
The SZ later on Thursday asked the same question, assuming the ministry had already counted. But how then, it is important to determine a two-digit number. We ask for your understanding, it is said, that this will take time, but of course the number will be submitted “as soon as possible”. They must have been working overtime at the ministry since Thursday, and counting experts have probably even been withdrawn from the internal tax department. Although they are also urgently needed there to complete the property tax return for the tax office and to correctly fill out the form “LSAW – vacant state properties in housing shortage areas”. The treacherous thing is that the number of unused properties in Hartmannshofen is constantly changing. There were 26 “vacant properties” last year, 29 in the summer, today there are 31.
And now the question of how many plots of land have already been sold to private individuals. Of course, the deputies can also count themselves, they were presented with a plot of land from Hartmannshofen. If an area is completely white, that means: sold. If it is outlined in black and filled with gray, it belongs to the state, and the houses on it stand empty and modern. The fact that these cards are from last year is an indication of how overwhelmed the ministry is. To update the plan, one would have to stop counting.