SREK Wohnen

The provision of urgently needed living space is faltering. The reasons for this are complex planning procedures, dwindling acceptance among citizens and difficulties in finding political majorities. High rents and property prices as well as an overloaded transport infrastructure are examples of the resulting problems.

The lack of affordable and needs-based housing is a social, economic and ecological problem and is increasingly becoming a location risk for the Stuttgart Region. Young people and urgently needed skilled workers in particular lack the prospect of owning their own home. Sufficient residential building land has been secured in planning. The housing development strategy is intended to initiate their development.

As part of the housing development strategy, a strategic regional development concept (SREK), a strategy with comprehensive advisory services and incentive systems is to be developed on the basis of empirical data and an area map adjusted for unrealistic cases with a view to potential housing development. This package of services is intended to support local authorities in the region in activating residential development sites that are well connected to public transport. In this way, a substantial contribution is to be made to the implementation of residential development sites and the discrepancy between planning and actual realization is to be reduced.