Berlin/Hanover/Bremen – In Lower Saxony and Bremen, the number of social housing fell last year. As can be seen from a response from the responsible Federal Ministry of Building available to the German Press Agency (dpa) to an inquiry by Left-wing member of the Bundestag Caren Lay, there were 55,193 social rental apartments in Lower Saxony in 2021 and thus 5071 fewer than in 2020. That was a decrease of 8, 4 percent.
According to the information, the development was also declining in the smallest German federal state, the two-city state of Bremen. There, the number of social rental apartments fell by 3.1 percent from 7,681 in 2020 to 7,442 last year.
According to the answer, the number of approved residential units for new construction funding measures in Lower Saxony amounted to 696 in 2021. In 2020 there were almost twice as many at 1201. In Bremen, 410 housing units were approved last year; In 2020 there were none (0).
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