Miesbach is fighting with housing shortage: 490 new buildings every year until 2028!
Miesbach is fighting with housing shortage: 490 new buildings every year until 2028!
In the district of Miesbach, an urgent need for new buildings of apartments is found. According to a recent study by the Pestel Institute, which was created on behalf of the Federal Association of Deutscher-Baustoff-Fachhandel (BDB), 490 new apartments have to be built annually by 2028 to meet future living space. The report emphasizes that 440 apartments are currently missing, which underlines the urgency of the topic. This situation is reinforced by the fact that around 2250 apartments are empty in the district, although many of them are in need of renovation and are therefore not habitable.
The study also shows that the vacancy in the district is 4.3 percent of the housing stock above the average in the region, where it is often about three percent. The Pestel Institute attributes this to a lack of reliability in the climate protection requirements and the restraint of the owners. "There is no way around the new building of apartments in the Miesbach district," said Matthias Günther, head of the Pestel Institute, in a press release. At the same time, there is also a criticism of the many norms and conditions that hinder the construction process.
comparison to other counties
It is particularly alarming that Miesbach has a lower vacancy compared to neighboring counties such as Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Dachau, but also a lower apartment requirement. Where over two percent of the housing stock is missing in Bad Tölz, the acute needs in Miesbach are only 0.90 percent. This discrepancy illustrates the different living space situation in the region.The regional differences in housing disposal are significant. While the numbers for Garmisch-Partenkirchen are similar, there are already initiatives for creating living space through projects of business development. This is recognized as an urgent need in Miesbach, but concrete progress is long in coming.
initiatives of regional development Oberland
The regional development Oberland (REO), according to Michael Stacheter, also has this problem on the agenda for the coming year. So far, the focus has primarily been on use and occupancy of existing apartments. The former leader, Simon Kortus, had already spoken about the challenges of the lack of living space in various committees and suggested approaches such as a living space exchange or the "Living for help" model, where young people can support older people. Despite the commitment, there seem to be sufficient progress in implementing these plans, which reinforces the impression of a stagnating situation.
Overall, the current analysis of the Pestel Institute draws a dark picture of the living space situation in the Miesbach district. The authority demands a uniform and extensive collection of apartment data in order to be able to better plan and implement future concepts to fix the defect. A comprehensive concept for living space supply still seems to be necessary in order to cover the increasing need and at the same time make empty apartments usable again. After all, the challenges that the topic of living space entails should be addressed in a targeted manner, even if the way there still appears difficult.
For more information on this topic, the detailed analysis of the Pestel Institute can be found here .