It's one of those ideas you put on a table for discussion, and you get a hundred different opinions.
So, up in Hamburg....the city-state government made a decision about a year ago. There is a district (the Nord region of town) where you can construct various buildings or multi-family homes, but you cannot get authorization to build a single-family home.
Focus did a good piece and covered the bulk of the story
This is a joint effort of the SPD-Green-Linke Party government there.
The driving logic here? It goes to three key elements. First, apartment buildings hold more people per square meter of ground space. Second, a forty apartment building cost less to construct than forty separate homes. Third, there's only x-amount of land, and the drive for single-family homes drives up speculation more than anything else.
My general view? If you said some huge area or neighborhood is forbidden for single-family homes.....the single-family homes that are already there....go up in a massive way. The journalists didn't go out to research that fact, but it wouldn't shock me if single-family homes went up by 10-to-15 percent in just one single year.
More folks opting for living outside of the Hamburg 'zone'? More than likely. If you gazed at a map, via a subway ride, you could be in the Schleswig-Holstein state in a matter of 30 minutes. The Mecklenburg state? Add another 15 to be right at the border. My humble guess is that both Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg saw a uptick for single-family construction, and they don't mind (they have the space).
The Greens and liberal-minded folks may be patting themselves on the back....that they forced regular people to accept apartment living or multi-family homes, but it's a false reality, if you ask me.
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