VdW Rhineland Westphalia

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The Association of the Housing and Real Estate Industry Rhineland Westphalia eV, or VdW Rhineland Westphalia for short , is a regional professional association and interest group for the housing industry . It has 474 member companies in the municipal / public, cooperative , church and industry / private housing and real estate industries, which manage 1.2 million apartments. Around a fifth of the North Rhine-Westphalian population living for rent lives in these housing stocks.

In addition to representing political interests in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate , the association's tasks also include auditing cooperatives. As a cooperative auditing association, the VdW Rhineland Westphalia carries out the audits of the housing cooperatives prescribed by the cooperative law as well as auditing and consulting for other housing and real estate companies.

The VdW Rhineland Westphalia is a regional association of the GdW Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies .

Association area

The association area of ​​the VdW Rhineland Westphalia extends over North Rhine-Westphalia and the northeastern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The division has grown historically and is based on the earlier Prussian administrative areas.

Affordability of housing

Traditionally, the VdW Rheinland Westfalen represents companies in the formerly non-profit housing industry and therefore attaches great importance to ensuring affordable housing in its association and political interest work. Since housing associations and cooperatives in Germany today, after the end of the public benefit, have to act just as economically as other companies, higher construction and modernization costs have an impact on rents.

The association therefore sees it as one of its important tasks to increase political and public awareness of cost drivers in residential construction. In political discussions, he highlights the existing conflicting goals between the energy transition in the building sector, the demographic conversion of living space, the high number of completions in new residential construction desired by politicians and affordable rents for low and normal earners. The fact that these conflicting goals exist was also confirmed by the Federal Building Cost Reduction Commission established by Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks and, in particular, by the research work of the Working Group for Contemporary Building .

By participating in alliances for affordable housing in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, by participating in round tables, specialist events, expert panels and political platforms, the association is committed to ensuring that a balance is achieved between the various social goals (a lot of new construction, energy-efficient buildings , barrier-free living space, low rents) can be achieved.

Role as auditing association

In addition to representing political interests in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the association's tasks also include auditing cooperatives. As a cooperative auditing association, the VdW Rhineland Westphalia carries out the audits of the housing cooperatives prescribed by the cooperative law as well as auditing and consulting for other housing and real estate companies.

Services for member companies

The VdW Rhineland Westphalia advises its member companies on legal, tax, business and technical issues and on basic, advanced and advanced training. In addition, it reviews the annual financial statements of housing companies and carries out all statutory audits at housing associations.

Via its subsidiary, VdW Treuhand, the association also offers fiduciary, insurance and financial services.

  • Auditing
  • Tax advice
  • Legal advice
  • Technical advice
  • Business advice
  • Vocational education and human resource development
  • VdW Treuhand

Association magazine

VdW Rhineland Westphalia publishes its "VerbandsMagazin" (VM) ten times a year, which can also be viewed on the Internet. In addition to the latest news from the housing industry, each issue highlights a key topic.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the association. In: VdW Rhineland Westphalia. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The Prussian Provinces. In: www.gonschior.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Konradin Medien GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen: non-profit housing industry from the lexicon - Wissen.de | http://www.wissen.de/lexikon/gemeinnuetzige-wohnungswirtschaft. In: www.wissen.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Nadine Oberhuber: Building past the need: New apartments too expensive for the masses . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 2, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 11, 2016]).
  5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Housing Day: "Regulation jungle makes building expensive". In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ alliance-living. In: www.bmub.bund.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Alliance for Housing NRW - affordable, generational, energy-efficient. (No longer available online.) In: Bündnis für Wohnen NRW. Archived from the original on August 11, 2016 ; accessed on August 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buendnis-fuer-wohnen.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Alliance for Affordable Housing and Building. In: fm.rlp.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ VDW. In: www.vdw-treuhand.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .