The construction industry has a "gastro effect" before. Because more and more construction projects are currently being put on hold due to high costs. This in turn leads to skilled workers being laid off and also looking around in other industries. But once they have left, they usually don't come back. This exacerbates the crisis. Because there is currently still a shortage of 700 nationwide.000 apartments.
Although around 700.000 apartments are missing, housing construction is faltering. Last year, real new orders fell by 9.6 percent compared with the previous year. This is alarming for the Industriegewerkschaft Bau-Agrar-Umwelt (IG Bau). "Actually, there should be significantly more residential construction – more new construction, more conversion, more renovation," wonders IG Bau board member Carsten Burckhardt. "Instead, incoming orders are slipping away, especially in residential construction. More and more players are pulling out – not only listed companies such as Vonovia or Deutsche Wohnen, but also some municipal, cooperative and church housing companies are currently putting construction projects on hold". He goes on to emphasize that there is a shortage of 700.000 apartments are missing and it is the biggest housing deficit in around 30 years.
Rising need in the housing market
The construction industry is unsettled by the situation. Now is the time to take countermeasures. The order books are still full and the demand for housing is high. What is needed are energy-efficient refurbishment of existing buildings, school buildings and the expansion of infrastructure. Mistakes must not be allowed to happen now. This also means that construction workers must not be laid off. These are said to be a valuable resource that has been built up over the years. Under no circumstances should this be put at risk, otherwise the construction industry will experience the "gastro effect". Once you leave, you don't come back, even in an emergency. The best example is the lockdowns during the pandemic in the restaurant industry. The professionals who have left have usually found other jobs that they don't want to leave.
State must encourage housing construction
The federal and state governments are particularly in demand. You must ensure that the building is facilitated and promoted. But you should also simplify the construction in the existing buildings. Old regulations that prevent rebuilding and new construction would have to be cleaned out. The state is now called upon. He said he needed to encourage municipal and church housing companies in particular to build apartments. Affordable housing and social housing are in demand. This also requires new funding. The material is there, but you can't let skilled workers go, you have to offer them an incentive. If housing construction is left in the lurch, it will take a very long time to recover. However, the skilled workers have then left.
Ladies and gentlemen,
How stupid are the associations, the government, the chambers, guilds, trade unions and what else on the back of the enterprises, the pockets vollmacht until it goes no more. Even at the risk that I will never be heard here and that I will emotionally bite off a very direct style of writing, it must be permitted to ask where the mind of all of you is at home. You all want more money, but deprives the small and medium-sized enterprises of any basis for earning money, you increase wages, set bonuses and do not even ask how this is to be brought in by the customer, you allow the industry to let the materials rise to infinity, you let the subsidies expire and the interest rates rise … find the mistake and Corona and the war are to blame for all these things. How stupid do you think the people are?. You give corporations like Vonovia (a cancer of the worst kind) the power to do whatever they want in the market and you are surprised that all similarly situated housing companies do the same and put on the brakes. My recommendation fetches primary school pupils into your committees and goes even again the school visit and learns which makes the life out. Such as now may not give it at all, you destroys seeing eye everything which could still something quietly in the already gebeutelten country. But the main thing is shareholders and officials are getting richer, fatter and more unworldly. You don't have to be surprised if the next elections result in what you so detest. You see it is all connected and you must not destroy any of the cogs, because then the engine limps and sputters (we are already in that phase) and next the engine dies and then it will be bad for all of us. So finally makes pressure in the right places, not tomorrow but yesterday.