How to get more people into the housing market in Oslo. Burde Hagegata in Tøyen torg, which has been empty for nine years, should become student housing. Or a combination between municipal housing and housing that is sold below the market price. Oslo Høyre’s mayoral candidate, Anne Lindboe, says that the current city council’s plan does not solve the housing crisis. – We have to do something about the processing time, we have to regulate more homes, three times as many. A lot of people are queuing, so we have to build more homes, says Lindboe. City councilor for urban development, Arild Hermstad (MDG) and Conservative mayoral candidate Anne Lindboe during the debate on Tuesday evening. Photo: Erlend Daae / news City council for urban development, Arild Hermstad says that reducing the processing time does not solve the problem. – You cannot solve it by reducing the processing time or building more. It is the builders who have the power. When prices fall, they have no interest in scooping up housing, says Hermstad. Prices doubled in ten years Getting into the housing market in Oslo is becoming increasingly difficult. In the last ten years, prices in the capital have doubled. And never have fewer people bought a home for the first time in the city. – The situation Oslo has driven itself into is a kind of disaster in slow motion, says Henning Lauridsen in Eiendom Norge. Oslo municipality owns several buildings where apartments have been empty. Among them is Hagegata 30 at Tøyen torg, which has been empty for nine years. GHOST BLOCK: The block in the middle of Tøyen Torg has been empty for nine years. At the same time, housing prices and demand for housing in Oslo have increased sharply. Photo: Hallgeir Braastad / news The current city council wants to turn the building into a mixture of municipal housing and housing that is sold below the market price, so that more people can afford it. Want to get rid of the apartment standard Oslo Høyre wants the current apartment standard to be scrapped. In four districts it is now illegal to build apartments under 35 square metres, but in practice this is followed throughout the city. Høyre believes that this prevents small apartments from being built for first-time buyers. Group leader in Oslo Rødt, Siavash Mobasheri, says that the construction of small apartments is not the way to go. – There is not a lack of small apartments, but there is a lack of a fair housing policy. Figures from Eiendom Norge show that 40 per cent of small apartments are bought by landlords. It doesn’t help with more small apartments, says Mobasheri.
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