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Offenbach’s municipal construction company GBO is set to achieve the new construction goal it has set for itself in 2021 for the first time in years.
Where there were previously only garages on Offenbach’s Odenwaldring between orange and beige blocks, the municipal construction company GBO has been building two new buildings with a total of 19 apartments since April. The average rents per square meter should be less than ten euros. And because the company is building the new buildings – like other projects – using modular construction, the first tenants should be able to move into the buildings as early as next year. “The prefabrication, especially the pre-assembled bathrooms, is extremely time-saving,” explains GBO architect Özlem Ata.
The number of newly built apartments between Odenwaldring and Weikertsblochstraße is manageable. Nevertheless, Mayor Felix Schwenke (SPD), who is also chairman of the GBO’s supervisory board, sees the project as a success: “Together with the 32 apartments being built on the Kappus-Höfe site that GBO has bought, it will offer 51 new apartments at the beginning of next year “, Explains Schwenke. Thus, the company ensures “relaxation on the Offenbach housing market”. As is well known, this is characterized by rapidly increasing rents and high demand.
The GBO
The non-profit construction company Offenbach (GBO) of the city has around 5000 apartments in its portfolio – including 2171 subsidized apartments. The average rent at the GBO is 6.46 euros. In the case of new leases, the company increases the rents in accordance with the rent index. The earnings situation According to the investment report, the GBO has developed “continuously positive” in recent years. Z ur renovation 90 apartments are due in Bürgel this year. fab
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In 2021, for the first time in a long time, the GBO could achieve its self-imposed goal of building “at least 30 new apartments a year”, as stated in the city’s current participation report. The construction company founded in 1921 has lagged behind this goal in recent years. Also in this one: Although the GBO has just bought 28 subsidized senior citizens’ apartments and taken over five existing apartments in Luisenstrasse – no new apartment has been completed. Nothing was completed in 2019 either, and in 2018 it narrowly missed the target with 28 new apartments.
Discussions are currently underway on further new building projects by GBO, for example in the “An den Eichen” development area in the east of the city. “It is important that our municipal housing association builds new affordable apartments itself to an increasing extent,” says the OB.
The construction company only recently hit the headlines when the Offenbach SPD called for the GBO to introduce a rent cap. The coalition of CDU, Greens, FDP and Free Voters rejects a cap on GBO rents – the CDU parliamentary group chairman even dismissed the SPD proposals as “gross nonsense” from the “socialist moth box”.
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