Create housing
High-rises are not an end in themselves. They are a tool: more apartments per square metre of land, less sealed surface across the region.
Initiative · Munich
Housing
Housing
needs the courage to rise.
Munich is growing. Land is finite, green space is precious — and commuting strangles the region. We advocate a sober debate about densification and high-rise buildings as part of the answer to the housing shortage.
Rising together. For Munich.
A cross-partisan debate with politics, science, business and civil society.
Why build higher?
According to the Pestel Institute's „Social Housing Monitor 2026", Germany is short of around 1.4 million apartments — more than 910,000 of them social housing. In Munich alone the deficit stands at around 16,900 units; Bavaria lacks 233,000. Designating new development areas meets increasing resistance — for good reasons. Those who want to protect green space and still create housing must think densification upwards.
Protect green space
If you build up, you need not build out. That relieves the landscape and the pressure on land use in the surrounding area.
A sober debate
We bring urban planning, politics, real estate and residents to the same table — fact-based, but willing to disagree.
The numbers speak for themselves.
1.4 mn
Apartments missing in Germany — Pestel Institute, Social Housing Monitor 2026.
16,900
Apartments missing in Munich according to the current Pestel analysis.
9,590
New apartments Munich needs every year according to Pestel.
60 m
From this height a building qualifies as a high-rise under Munich rules.
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