The green-red government coalition in the city council accuses the Bavarian state government of delaying the implementation of a law passed by the Bundestag for more protection of tenants. In Berlin, the CDU / CSU and SPD had negotiated a corresponding compromise. “Now the regulations, which are the basis for one of the most important points in the law, not to be implemented, that is devastating,” said Simone Burger, spokeswoman for housing policy of the SPD / Volt parliamentary group on Wednesday in the planning committee.
On the agenda was a report by City Building Councilor Elisabeth Merk on innovations that the “Building Land Mobilization Act”, which came into force in the summer, will bring with it – and how the planning department intends to deal with them. One of the new features is the possible expansion of the ban on converting rental apartments into condominiums.
So far, the municipality can only apply the so-called “approval reservation” in areas with a conservation statute, in future it should be possible throughout the city. For this, however, the Free State would have to issue two statutory ordinances: one in which it declares Munich to be an area with a tight housing market, and a second in which it specifies the number of apartments in the building from which the conversion ban applies, the range extends from three to 15 The green-red coalition commissioned Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) to campaign for a value of three in the Free State.
“Berlin and Hamburg have the regulations, they can regulate the conversion. We don’t even have a schedule, we don’t know when we can protect people,” criticized Burger. Green city councilor Bernd Schreyer appealed to the CSU parliamentary group: “If you don’t want to go under in the city,” you must persuade Building Minister Kerstin Schreyer (CSU) to issue the ordinances. As in June, the ministry said on Wednesday that the test was ongoing and it was not yet clear how long it would take. Brigitte Wolf (left) pointed out that essential regulations in the law are limited to 2024, “three months of that are already over”, and that it is “a law that can do some good”.
Jörg Hoffmann (FDP), on the other hand, spoke of a “building land prevention law”. He is surprised that Federal Building Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) “pushed it through” against the resistance of his party friends in the Bundestag. Now, according to Hoffmann, he hopes that the state government will wait until a new federal government has formed, which will hopefully set a different course. “It’s a difficult law,” said CSU planning spokeswoman Heike Kainz. Therefore, their group did not vote for the mandate to the OB. Kainz said they wanted to know more precisely how the conversion ban would be designed.