Amendment to the subsidy

Critics: “Rental housing will be further starved”

Wood in residential construction: is the domestic building material sufficiently taken into account?

(Bild: Jürgen Radspieler)

The planned reform of housing subsidies, which is expected to apply from January 2025, is also attracting harsh criticism. The urgently needed boost for the rental sector cannot be achieved in this way, they say. The Greens are shaking their heads, while the Chamber of Commerce, which welcomes the simplification of building law, is praising the move.

The state government presented reform plans on Friday, but left open how many rental apartments are to be built in future. "With 200 million euros, we will not achieve the target of 1,000 urgently needed rental apartments per year," criticized Chamber of Labour President Peter Eder.

The two million euros earmarked for pure planning costs in timber construction are a joke. We must promote building with wood.

Martina Berthold, die Grünen

"Too little money for renovations and no incentives for ecological building," is the criticism of the Greens. The planned reform is a burden on the climate. Providing only 26 million euros for renovations next year is wrong, according to Green Party leader Martina Berthold. It is disputed whether wood as a building material has been sufficiently taken into account by an innovation fund.

Also approval for planned reform
Positive reactions come from the Chamber of Commerce: the funding, which also provides grants for those who are not creditworthy due to strict lending guidelines (KIM regulation), helps. Salzburg Chamber President Peter Buchmüller also sees the planned annual review of building regulations as having a dampening effect on prices.