Financial uncertainty: Districts have to rethink project planning

Alarming messages from the Senate Department for Finance! The districts were informed about the shocking developments in a brand new circular: From January 1, 2025, there will be no permits for grants! Time is pushing and uncertainty hovers like a shadow over numerous projects.

"At your own responsibility" - that is now the clear call to all those responsible! Everyone who is planning with funds is facing a huge question mark. The cooperation of the organizational units threatens to stall.

affected funding backdrops

Particularly explosive: Above all, there are important support programs on the brink! This includes the program fine (voluntary commitment in neighborhoods) for individual and pilot projects, strengthening the major Berlin settlements as well as measures for cleanliness and security- all projects that are of great importance for many people.

The recommendation of the administration is clear: do not take any step into planning with these means! A strategic waiting is the order of the day. The question is all the more urgent: What happens to the initiatives that are dependent on this support?

The uncertainty is huge and the districts feel the pressure. Questions are welcome, but the answers to the most burning questions will be left out for the time being. What comes after this announcement? With a queasy feeling, those responsible look at the developments with regard to the future.