AfD on housing

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper by lowering construction costs, simplifying Bavarian building law and removing taxes on real estate. The property tax (Grundsteuer) is to be abolished entirely, and the real estate transfer tax is to be dropped for owner-occupied homes. The party rejects rent caps and rent brakes and instead relies on more housing construction and support for home ownership.

The AfD wants housing to cost less. Building should become easier and cheaper. The property tax should end. People who buy a home to live in should pay no tax on the purchase. The party rejects limits on rents.

The platform calls for digitizing building applications and permits to simplify procedures. Cooperative and social housing construction are to be pushed more strongly, and there are to be incentives for renting out vacant homes. The AfD wants to support rent-to-own arrangements for first-time buyers of an owner-occupied home with low-interest KfW loans. The home-building programs of the state-owned Landesbodenkreditanstalt are to be expanded. The party argues that owning a home should remain attainable as retirement provision despite rising financing costs, especially in rural areas.

The AfD wants German citizens not to be disadvantaged in access to housing. State intervention in the housing market to accommodate asylum seekers is to stop. In the party's view, immigration makes housing scarce and drives up prices.

The AfD wants to put Germans first for housing. The state should stop finding homes for asylum seekers. German students should get dorm places first. The party says immigration makes homes scarce and costly.

The platform justifies the priority by saying it is mainly German citizens who work and sustain the country through their efforts. In the AfD's view, housing asylum seekers distorts the housing market and should end immediately. The party calls for an end to what it describes as mass immigration. In student dorms, German students are to be considered ahead of foreign ones.