Zusammenfassung
Summary
In the 1980s the federal State of Hesse enacted the so called Land Provisioning Guideline, enabling the development of building land for municipalities through provision of financial resources coming from State guarantees. Facing today’s shortage on land, the importance of this policy is growing again, especially regarding the associated advantages of a short-term development of building land combined with a reduction of the burden of municipal households. Being a useful tool to support municipalities, the Land Provisioning Guideline also supports the rural area in general. So today particularly municipalities located close to urban areas with low budget funds tend to use this tool increasingly.