Now it’s final: a plan how the Berlin Senate tries to get a grip on the city’s housing shortage. Where is there too much construction going on? B.Z. discusses the most important projects.
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After tough debates Berlin’s Red-Red-Green Senate passed a City Development Plan on August, 20, the so called ‘StEP Wohnen 2030.’ It defines where, when, and how many apartments should be built.
The pressure is enormous: between 2011 and 2016 Berlin’s population has grown by +245,000, that’s the complete populace of a city like Kiel. Due to this turbulent development Berlin is short of 80,000 apartments. And the need for more is constantly increasing.
► 90,000 apartments within three years are achievable; in part they are already under construction.
► 63,000 apartments are to be built in the next seven years.
Twenty percent of the urgently needed apartments are to be covered by 14 larger city quarters. The senate is currently checking whether four further projects should be added: Siemesstadt, estate Hellersdorf, the Dragoner area in Kreuzberg, and Späthsfeld (in Treptow).
Four of these XXL quarters have already been started, among them Eurocity on Heide street. The urban development plan also marks 250 additional areas for a minimum of 200 apartments each. Additionally, 30 post-war housing estates are to be desified or will be added to.
Bottom line is: there is room for 200,000 apartments, and at least 194,000 will be needed in the next decade. So far, the Berlin Senate has never managed to fulfill its own self-set yearly quota. According to that quota, 20,000 apartments should have been ready annually.
The Chamber of Commerce (IHK) is skeptical. Director Jörg Nolte says, ‘These goals set by the Senate itself will not be achieved in the future either. And the few vacant areas are overloaded with more and more restrictions. This makes new building projects less attractive for private investors all the time.’ The problem: the city’s own building societies and cooperatives are only supposed to take on half of the construction projects.
The responsible senator, Katrin Lompscher (57, Linke) has to also find a substitute for 21 garden plots (4,300 apartments) that are marked as building sites but should ideally not be touched by excavators.
► South Blankenburg (Pankow)
5,000-6,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2027
► Buch (Pankow)
Approx. 4,400 apartments
Start of construction: 2021
► Buckow Fields (Neukölln)
800-900 apartments
Start of construction: 2021
► Europacity (Mitte)
3000 apartments
Start of construction: already underway
► Wasserstadt Oberhavel (Spandau)
4,500-5,000 apartments
Start of construction: already underway
► Gartenfeld Island (Spandau)
3,000-4,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2020
► Johannisthal/Adlershof (Treptow-Köpenick)
2,000-2,500 apartments
Start of construction: already underway
► Güterbahnhof/Freight Station Köpenick (Köpenick)
1,000-2,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2021
► South Lichterfelde (Steglitz)
2,500-3,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2020
► Michaelangelo Street (Pankow)
1,500 apartments
Start of construction: dependant on the outcome of the current dialogue process
► Schumacher Quarter (Tegel)
5,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2022
► Marshalling Yard Pankow (Pankow)
1,500-2,000 apartments
Start of construction: 2022
► Neue Mitte Tempelhof (Tempelhof)
Approx. 500 apartments
Start of construction: not specified
► Südkreuz (Schöneberg)
1,900 apartments
Start of construction: already underway