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Urgent request from ÖVP “Allotments are an essential contribution to the formation of properties for the Viennese population”
Vienna (OTS / RK) – The ÖVP had submitted an urgent request to the Councilor for Housing, Kathrin Gaál, regarding “The garden plots are an essential contribution to the creation of properties for the Viennese population.” GR Dr. Peter Sittler (ÖVP) justified the urgent request as follows:
He had learned from the media that as of January 31 it would no longer be possible to acquire allotment gardens. Until now, the tenants have had the opportunity to purchase the garden. This will now be abolished and will have far-reaching consequences, Sittler said. This prevents the creation of affordable properties in Vienna. The Vienna city government, especially the councilor for housing construction Kathrin Gaal (SPÖ), argued that the decision would be to stop speculation in the future. According to Sittler, this was also possible with “less drastic measures.” For example, clauses could have been included in the sales contract that stipulated that “quickly earned money” would have to be returned to the city through speculation. With the new regulation “property will be nipped in the bud,” Sittler feared. Less ownership means more dependency, tenants and tenants bond more easily. In any case, the ÖVP wants people to decide for themselves what is best for them, be it rent, lease or ownership. It is about the possibility of individual self-determination, which is now being lost.
StRin Mag.a Jungnickel (ÖVP) said the city of Vienna was taking the wrong path with its request not to allow tenants to buy in the future. To avoid speculation, there are other ways, no “anti-property measures” are needed. You, Jungnickel, saw in the measure of the city government a “clear political intention against the creation of private property.” That is “perfidious and a shame,” after all, it is well known that Viennese primarily want to live on private property, Jungnickel said. The support of young families is also important, and the garden is “an excellent option.” Therefore, Jungnickel discovered that this step taken by the city government “bypasses the people.”
GR Anton Mahdalik (FPÖ) said in the direction of the Greens: The Green Councilor had previously shown that today’s decision “finally put an end to bad speculators”. Mahdalik found this statement “cute”. After all, it was the Greens who had “for many years a top speculator of the purest water” in their ranks. When it came to the sales stop, Mahdalik said the Greens had “always” had something against allocations. The FPÖ has always been of the opinion that it should be allowed to block part of the terrace with a winter garden in the habitable gardens throughout the year. That was always rejected, both by the SPÖ and by the Greens. The Greens have always argued that they don’t want more soil sealing. However, the terrace is already sealed, says Mahdalik. Mahdalik could not understand why a part could not be built with a winter garden.
GR Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Gara (NEOS) said that the city’s task is to think economically, but not economically. That is also the reason for the decision to stop award sales. Gara found ÖVP councilor Jungnickel’s point of view “romantic”; it just doesn’t match the reality that young family property creation is all about. Most allotment gardens are “pure speculation”; To get a maximum price for land, more and more land is sealed. The city government wants to avoid this and is focusing on the relaxing environment and biodiversity. That’s also what the residents wanted, Gara said. NEOS have always been in favor of ownership and it is important to create affordable property. But not if only a few benefit from it. The stop sales does not restrict the rights of tenants of partial gardens, they must be able to use the partial gardens “for generations”.
GR Georg Prack, BA (Greens) said the emphasis in the word “garden” was on “garden”, not “property.” A city “is not a sum of groups of single-family houses”, but a densely urbanized urban area. The orchard was never “intended as a drug substitute for the dream of a single-family home,” Prack said. If there were only single-family houses in Vienna, no more than 1 million people could be accommodated, Prack said. And that does not include the space for recreational and cultural activities. It’s about “basic math skills”: Anyone “spreading” single-family housing around the big city may “not do arithmetic or do politics for a few,” Prack said. If the parcels were sold, the price spiral would “start to change” and a limited supply would be created for a few. Then future generations would no longer have the possibility of obtaining a garden.
GR Dr. Kurt Stürzenbecher (SPÖ) testified that ÖVP councilor Jungnickel “transfigures the romanticism of property”. Speculation is “always dangerous and does not serve the general public,” Stürzenbecher said. According to Stürzenbecher, it is also wrong for most Viennese to want property, as Jungnickel claims. This can easily be seen from three points: 1) Since 1918 there have been 21 elections in Vienna and voters have always “falsified the ÖVP claims”; 2) even in the last Vienna elections, more than 70 percent of the electorate voted against the ÖVP’s positions and 3) in a referendum on property, 86 percent said that public property should remain public. Stürzenbecher defended the ban on the sale of partial gardens: as a tenant, “you are granted all the rights to lead a happy life in a green oasis.” This oasis would be “destroyed” if the views of the ÖVP prevailed.
GRin Sabine Schwarz (ÖVP) accused former speaker Georg Prack of “arrogance and arrogance”: “What can be said against the family model of father, mother and son? They don’t behave appropriately. ” By building the property and building houses on their own property, the partial garden settlements would become “younger”, because many young families would “like” to settle there. “But today you let this dream explode,” Schwarz said in the direction of the city government. “Calling parcel gardeners speculators is almost funny,” Schwarz said. The prosperity of people through property is “nothing bad, the promotion of families through the creation of property must be possible from the city and not hindered,” demanded Schwarz.
GRin Waltraud Karner-Kremser, MAS (SPÖ) contradicted one of the previous speakers, Isabelle Jungnickel: Just because there are different political points of view between the ÖVP and the SPÖ, the demand of the Social Democrats is not “perfidious, but we look at the people from this city “. Sixty-two percent of all Viennese would live in subsidized housing, and Vienna’s 220,000 municipal apartments will continue to “pay very close” in the future. “You can live without worries in this city.” The Viennese housing model is a model to follow for many European cities because “there is no longer any land of your own for your own home.” Therefore, it is important to “protect the land in Vienna for future generations,” says Karner-Kremser.
Vote
Additional funding for the Vienna Business Agency in relation to the COVID-19 crisis was decided unanimously. It was also decided to stop the sale of partial gardens; financing urban summer camps 2021; funds to secure places in kindergarten; the support of the local association Agenda 21 in Vienna for the promotion of citizen participation processes; Grants and grants to associations in the areas of integration, women, education and art, as well as zoning in Währing and Liesing.
In the course of the discussions the following motions were introduced, accepted by the municipal council and assigned to the responsible committees: Re-planning of the Praterstrasse renovation, examination of new measures along the Vienna River by SPÖ and NEOS; Provide city council members with laptops and software by the City of Vienna from SPÖ, ÖVP, Greens, NEOS and FPÖ; Viennese Whistleblowing System (Whistleblowing Platform), funding for ÖVP primary education institutions; Codex of Public Corporate Governance, reception of the FPÖ Steinhofgrund commemorative plaque; Specific package of measures for women over 50 years of age with biography of migrations and refugees, abortion in hospitals of the Vienna Health Association, public space for girls, promotion of mobile socio-educational care, initiation of an equality monitor in the field of art, culture and science by the Greens.
The other motions of the opposition did not find a majority. The fifth Vienna City Hall ended at 11:39 pm
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