Housing subsidy
The housing subsidy is a control instrument of family and social policy , the aim of which is to promote affordable, high-quality living space that is tailored to the needs. Depending on the country, other criteria also play a role, for example as an incentive for private investment in residential construction such as sanitary facilities, improved energy systems or additional thermal insulation .
Types of housing subsidies
Promotion of home ownership or promotion of the production or modernization of rentable living space (both new construction, first acquisition and renovation) through:
- Grants as non-refundable amounts of money
- Low- interest loans compared to the capital market
- Equity aid in the form of default guarantees (usually provided by Landesbanken or KfW Bankengruppe )
- real estate-related pension products
- Load subsidy according to the Housing Benefit Act
- Depreciation relief according to the income tax law
Objective of the housing subsidy
- Ecological orientation through better thermal insulation and other measures to reduce energy consumption
- Revitalization of districts ( urban redevelopment contracts and related subsidies)
- Providing certain population groups with sufficient living space within the framework of earmarked housing subsidies
- Limitation of the rent to the cost of rent for the care of socially disadvantaged tenants through purpose and price fixation when awarding the respective funding. Renting (in Germany) only to holders of a housing entitlement certificate (WBS / B-Schein). See social housing
See also
Web links
for the Austrian housing subsidy
- Housing subsidies in Austria: Research Association for Living, Building and Planning (Austria)
- Association for housing subsidies in Austria
- Czasny, Karl - Social-political steering effects of housing subsidies in an international comparison ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 106 kB)
- Housing and economic problems due to the reduction in housing subsidies ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 338 kB)
- Housing subsidy in Tyrol [1]