The building Trade and housing

Just as other branches of trade, in the buillding trade a trend to mechanization set in a trend which increasing affected the buisness. About the middle of 19--- cement mixtures are more than 52,400 cranes and hoists and about 50,000 trucks and tractors were engaged in the main building trade, apart from increasing number of turrent_cranes, conveyer belts and . Simultaneously with this development the bigger buildings concern have increasinly taken on more importance than the buisness relaying, THE TRACTORS WERE ENGAGED IN MAIN BUILDING TRADE , A part from an increasing number of turret_cranes, conveynor belts and like. Simultaneously with this development the bigger building concerns have increasingly taken or more importance of 19--- 2, 819 of 59,941 concerns engaged in the main building trade were employing 100 or more persons.

This mechanization and rationalization in the field of building is one of the prelimininary conditions for the boom in building that has experioenced in the FEDERAL REPUBLIC in Recent Year. and it is the same time a consequences of it. Its importance in contributing to the internal recuperation of the German people can be measured only, if one compared it with the extents of damage resulting. .

By the time the 2.2 million dwellings in the Federal area- about 20 percent. of the total had been completly destroyred . Approximately 6.8 million dwellings were built providing satisfactory accomodation for some 22 million persons. For every 10,000 inhabitants in the Federal Republic there were 101newly built dwellings , as against 54 in communist- dominated part of Germany.

From 19-- to 19-- inclusive , a total 128,000 million DM ($30,500million=$10,900 million) was expended on the provision of housing of this amount, about 29 % came from percent came from the public funds about 46 percent from the capital market the remainder been providing by the
persons fot. whom the property was being built. The proportion coming from the capital market, which has been comparitively small in 19--increased in the following years, It amouted to more than 50 percent on the total amout expended on financing the building of housing accomodation.
The main emphasis in house- building lies on what is called Government aided Social housing -or housing subsidized by the Government. About 3.6 million new dwelling have been built under this scheme . The arrangement covers dwellings havs been built under this Scheme. This
arrangement covers dwellings the rents or other charges on which are kept through the granting of public loans at low rate of interest and long term amortizations and thus with in the reach of large sections of populations . Of receant years there has been an increasing change over from aid been exclusively given on the bases of loans a sharing of aid subsidizing of the penditure with repayment over a moderate period of time, part of the fund formely compatting entirely from official sources has been replaced for a period of 5 years by the subsidies. In 19-- , 295,700 dwellings the prime coast of which were 11,300 million DM($2,825 million=$1,000 million) were built with the assistance from public funds, The1. housing Act providing for the building of a total 2 million dwelling. U nder the 2, housing Act a furthur 1.8 million dwelling built in the period 19-- to 19-- . The aim of the state in assisting house- building is, at the same time relieving the housing storage, to provide as many people as possible with property of their own. For this purpose the intention is to assist particularly in the building of family homes public funds are foemost to be used for making grants towards the buildin g of such homes for persons with small incomes.
The main emphasis in house_ building lies on what is called $Government_ aided social housing _ or housing subsidized by the Government, About 3.6 million dwellings have been built under this scheme.
This arrangements covers dwellings the rents of other charges which are kept low through the
granting of public loans at low rates of interest and long- term amortilization, and thus with in the reach of large sections of populations. Of recent years there has been an _increasing change over from aid been exclusively given on the basis of loans to a sharing of the aid and subsidizing of the expenditure with Repayment over a moderate period of 5 times, part of the fund formely
coming entirely from official sources has been replaced by advances from the capital market, which are reduced for a period of five years by the subsidies, in 19--, 295700 of dwelling a prime coast of which were 11,300 million DM ($2,825 million=$1,009million ) were built by assistance
from public funds. The first housing ACT a furthur 1.8 million dwellings were built in the period 19-- to 19-- inclusive.
The aim in the state in assisting house- building is, at the same time relieving the housing shotage, to provide as many people as possible with property of their own. For this purpose the intention is to assist particularly in the building of family homes. public funds are the first and foremost to be used for making grants toward the building of such homes for persons with small incomes. The same advantage is enjoyed by the families in which there is a lot of children by
severely disabled persons , extra family loan according to the number of children, by the end of-
19 -- about 3.5 million
Government assisted dwellings and 1.5 million owner-owned houses had been built. We here as during the first years after the war the majority of the newly built dwelling had only a small number of rooms , larger places are now being built to a much greater extent . In 19-- . 71 percent of new dwellings had 4 or more rooms including the kitchen.
In 19-- the turnover of the west German main building trade was 31, 770 million DM ( $7, 943 million=$2, 837 million), of which house building accounted for 11, 400 million DM ( $178 million +$63 million) , commercial buildings for 6.630 million DM ($1.658 million=$$592 million). agricultural buildings for 710 million DM($178 million=$63 million), commercial building for 6.630 million DM ($760Millon =$271 Millon), road building for 4.970 million DM($1.243 millon= $444 million) and certain subterranean structural work for 5.020 million = $448 million)
At the end of the sep . 19-- the number of the persons employed in the entire building trade was 2,324,000 .
In 19-- the price of rough building land in the federal Republic building land in the Federal Republic ,was about 9.60 DM ($2.40=$_/17/2) per sq. meter , of land ready for building on about 15.50DM($3,88=$1/7/8)
Of the 936,000 houses built between 19-- and19-- for private ownership , 33 percent were for workers 20 percent, for official and office staff, and 2.8 percent, for pensioners. By 19-- about 2.4 million normal dwellings were owned by employees, who, even if the average value of a house is taken as only 15,000 DM($3.750=$1.339) have thus become the owners of property worth 36,000 million DM( $9,000 million=$3.214million)