AfD on housing

The AfD wants more people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to be able to afford their own house or apartment. Tax advantages would be tied to conditions such as building in the regional style or guaranteeing affordable rents. Accessible housing suited to older people would also be supported.

The AfD wants more people to be able to buy a home. People who build in a way that helps the state should pay less tax. One example is offering low rents. The state should also support homes for older people.

The platform justifies this by noting that the state has one of the lowest home ownership rates among Germany's larger states. In the AfD's view, ownership ties skilled workers to the region, lets several generations live together, and reduces the long-term need for social housing. Tax advantages would go to those who build sustainably and in the regional style, guarantee low rents, create or keep jobs, or provide multigenerational housing. Accessible homes would be supported so people can live independently in old age.

The AfD wants to remove building rules it considers unnecessary and create a single statewide framework. This includes reforming the forest law, adjusting heating standards, and setting short deadlines for species protection reports.

The AfD wants building to go faster. It wants to remove building rules. The same rules should apply across the whole state. Reports on protecting animals should be finished sooner.

According to the platform, red tape delays construction, and the federal 'Bauturbo' fast-track scheme is not working because municipalities add restrictions of their own. The forest law would be changed so that wild growth on a plot is not so quickly classified as forest. Heating standards would be adjusted so systems need not be oversized. Species protection reports would face fixed, short deadlines, with long-term monitoring only for large projects. In mixed-use zones, suitable commercial space could generally be converted to housing as long as non-disruptive businesses remain.

The AfD wants targeted support for housing cooperatives and municipal housing companies. Vacant buildings would be made usable again through subsidized renovation and conversion. Housing should stay affordable first for local residents, including against pressure from vacation rentals.

The AfD wants to keep low-cost housing. It wants to help housing co-ops and town-owned housing companies. Empty buildings should be rebuilt with public money. People who live here should come before vacation rentals.

The platform names rising utility costs, expensive new construction, and tourism as reasons affordable housing is scarce. Using vacant buildings is meant to create housing without consuming more land. Where it makes sense, partial demolition would also be subsidized. The AfD calls tourism an important industry but says vacation apartments and second homes must not push out local residents.

The AfD wants to give lasting security to allotment gardens, weekend settlements, and settlers' associations. Their interests would have to be taken into account in urban and regional planning. When such land is sold, local residents would get priority over outside investors.

The AfD wants to protect allotment gardens and weekend settlements. Towns should have to consider them when they plan. Clubs and tenants should be able to stay safely. When land is sold, local people should get to buy first.

The platform describes allotment gardens and settlements as a long-standing tradition and as places of community. It says that for many people they are the only affordable way to live close to nature. The land should not be given up for investors' building projects. Legal and financial conditions would be shaped so that associations and tenants have long-term security.