Daycare centre and urban land-use planning in the municipality

Rising rents, scarce living space: in order to tackle this problem, local authorities have been increasingly called upon to designate new residential areas, not least as a result of the Building Land Mobilisation Act. However, every new development area triggers a new need for social infrastructure in the municipalities. The public focus is always on the provision of sufficient daycare centres.

Following a steady increase in investment in daycare centres until 2020, a downward trend has been observed since then. The expansion of daycare centres in local authorities has been made more difficult by the sharp rise in construction prices in particular, as well as planning uncertainties due to the current crisis.