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Urban development and housing
Cities are focal points of problems and potential. On the one hand, cities stand for economic dynamics, technological, social and cultural innovations and opportunities. On the other hand, they are places where social disparities are widening and ecological problems are getting worse. In the future, urban development will be characterized to an even greater extent by large-scale and small-scale processes of growth and shrinkage that exist simultaneously and side by side.
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Urban development under changing demographic and economic conditions
The urban and local authority policy of social, ecological and economic modernisation is facing new challenges. In the long term, population shrinkage, ageing and increasing heterogeneity will characterise the demographic change in Germany, albeit with regional differences. At the same time, the national policy action conditions are changing fundamentally and will continue to do so in the future.
Investment pact to improve the energy efficiency of schools, kindergartens, gymnasiums and other social buildings in municipalities
Throughout Germany, there are around 40,000 schools, approximately 48,000 kindergartens, child day care centres and crèches plus tens of thousands of (school) gymnasiums. Over one half of these approx. 150,000 buildings are in urgent need of energy efficiency improvements. They are wasting expensive energy. This is especially true of schools built in the 1960s and 1970s, and the same applies to child day care centres and young people's leisure centres.
Federal Government housing assistance
Housing is a basic, human need. Good standards of living and intact cities are vitally important to an individual's quality of life. In addition, they also make a significant contribution towards a good social climate within our society.
