Housing Promotion Act

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Basic data
Title: Law on Social Housing Promotion
Short title: Housing Promotion Act
Abbreviation: WoFG
Type: Federal law
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Legal matter: Construction and housing
References : 2330-32
Issued on: September 13, 2001
( BGBl. I p. 2376 )
Entry into force on: January 1, 2002
Last change by: Art. 42 G of November 20, 2019
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1626, 1652 )
Effective date of the
last change: 		November 26, 2019
(Art. 155 G of November 20, 2019)
GESTA : B030
Weblink: Text of the WoFG
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Act on Social Housing Promotion (Wohnraumförderungsgesetz - WoFG) was passed as Art. 1 of the Law on Reforming Housing Law and replaced the Second Housing Act (II. WoBauG) from 1956, which had been in effect until January 1, 2002 .

Four elements play a central role in the new Housing Promotion Act:

  1. Concentration of support on those really in need (large families, people with low incomes),
  2. greater consideration of the housing stock (promotion of modernization),
  3. Promoting the acquisition of used residential property,
  4. closer integration of housing and urban development policies of the municipalities.

For the older population, social housing subsidies include support for barrier-free construction methods and age-appropriate forms and qualities of living, for example living space for groups with special needs or assisted living .

As a "anticipation" of the federalism reform that took place a few years later , with which social housing construction became the competing legislative competence of the federal states, the law lays down framework conditions for social housing in Germany, including definitions and certain regulations in connection with entitlement to purchase a publicly subsidized apartment, the details of which are to be filled in by the federal states.

Since then, for example, the apartment sizes for publicly subsidized apartments have no longer been determined uniformly across the country, but are determined individually by each federal state. While the changes in apartments for single people are limited (mostly 45 m², depending on the federal state also 50 m²), the differences in larger apartments, especially those for four or five people, are sometimes serious (depending on the state 95 to 120 m² ).

Also standardized in this law are fines for misappropriation of publicly subsidized living space.

literature

  • Kurt Bodewig : The new direction of social housing . Wirtschaftsdienst 2001 / III, pp. 135–148
  • Wilhelm Söfker: The law for the reform of the housing construction law - overview and essential content . WuM 2002, 291

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Law Gazette I p. 2376
  2. ↑ Second Housing Act (Housing and Family Home Act - II. WoBauG) in the version published on August 19, 1994 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2137)
  3. ↑ Winfried Michels: Housing Policy: old federal states KAS , accessed on June 26, 2018
  4. ^ Hasso Brühl: Municipal housing policy after the reform of housing law (seminar report) Difu seminar in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing from 12.-13. September 2002 in Berlin
  5. ^ Sabine Wagner: The legal foundations of social housing . March 28, 2013
  6. ↑ cf. For example for Brandenburg: Administrative regulation of the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing and Transport for the Housing Promotion and Housing Binding Act (VV-WoFGWoBindG) of October 15, 2002