Overview
- The Federal Ministry for Building said Tuesday that monitoring of roughly 393–400 voluntary municipal responses found Bau‑Turbo applications in 72% of those places and that more than half of applications had been approved.
- The ministry reported decisions can be up to about 20 times faster under the measure, reflecting a clear drop in permit time where it is used.
- A GdW survey in September found only about 8% of social housing companies had used the instrument, but those cases saw median approval times of three months compared with about 16 months in normal procedures.
- Most approvals have focused on already developed or mixed‑use sites with only about 12% of permitted units on previously green or agricultural land.
- Industry groups and experts warn the rule is helpful but insufficient, citing financing limits, planned 2027 budget cuts, and an Ifo forecast of roughly 185,000 completions this year against an estimated need of at least 300,000 units.