Senate – Berlin – housing alliance and budget: Giffey wants 100-day program – politics
Berlin (dpa / bb) – Berlin’s governing mayor-designate Franziska Giffey wants to push the first important Senate projects with a 100-day program after the start of her term of office. The program will include the state budget, a broad alliance for housing and affordable rents and the preparation of a “restart program” for the coronavirus-ravaged economic sectors, said the SPD politician of the German press agency. And: “I definitely want to tackle the topic of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region for the first 100 days.”
Giffey is to be elected ruling mayor in the House of Representatives on December 21, then her senatorium is to be elected and sworn in. Before that, when & SPD, Greens and Left still agree to the coalition agreement presented last Monday.
“We will be an alliance for housing and affordable rents for reasons,” announced Giffey. “I intend to take on an administrative role together with the Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing. This alliance must have clear priority. The Senate Chancellery will invite you to do so.”
In the alliance, municipal and cooperative housing cooperatives with politicians and other participating companies should be insured and insured how housing construction can be accelerated and fair rents can be achieved.
In addition, according to Giffey, an expert commission is to be set up for the first 100 days of the new Senate to examine constitutional conformity, requirements and options for implementing the successful referendum on the expropriation of large housing companies. After one year, the committee should submit a recommendation to the Senate on how to proceed.
“And we have the double budget set up at the beginning of the year,” Giffey explained her 100-day program. “That is the first big task that will keep us busy.” You remember that the SPD, the Greens and the Left agreed in the coalition agreement to increase the budget from 32 billion euros this year to 33 billion in 2022 and to 34 billion in 2023. This now needs to be concretized in intensive discussions in order to enable growth out of the pandemic.
This aim is also served by the planned “restart program” for the trade fair, congress and event industry, tourism, gastronomy, hotel and culture. Giffey will convene the existing Round Table on Tourism within the first 100 days and also continue the Round Table on Industrial Policy in order to advise the business community on which support is needed and where it makes sense. At the same time, it is about further aid in the crisis from the federal and state governments and, on the other hand, the concrete design of the funding program in the millions to deal with the consequences of the corona.
Regarding the metropolitan region of Berlin-Brandenburg, Giffey announced: “One of my first business trips will be to visit (Prime Minister) Dietmar Woidke in Potsdam.” It should be about joint appointments in order to advance the metropolitan region, for example with company settlements, science and research, the expansion of the rail network or energy supply. “I am convinced that the close cooperation between Berlin and Brandenburg will give us a great opportunity to develop new technologies and innovations even more,” emphasizes Giffey.
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