Promote social housing and home ownership
The AfD wants to create more subsidized housing and make it easier to buy a home. To do so, it wants more building land developed, permitting radically simplified, and municipal and cooperative housing companies strengthened. The platform considers rent brakes and rent caps ineffective.
The AfD wants more low-cost homes. It wants more land for building. Building permits should be simpler. Cities and housing co-ops should build more homes. Buying your own home should also get easier.
Cross-regional building land commissions made up of the federal government, states, municipalities, regional associations and landowners are to speed up the development of building land. Permitting procedures, which the platform sees as overloaded with climate and energy-saving requirements and participation processes, are to be radically simplified. Municipal and cooperative housing companies are to be supported or newly founded, municipal land awarded primarily through concept-based tendering, and additional social housing created by buying occupancy rights. In the medium term the AfD relies on affordable new construction, renovating village centers and strengthening rural areas to relieve pressure on urban markets. A tax write-off for owner-occupied homes could, in the party's view, mobilize capital and raise the ownership rate. The platform sees higher housing benefits only as a short-term fix.
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„Die AfD setzt sich deshalb für die Schaffung sozial geförderten Wohnraums ein.“Translation: The AfD is therefore committed to creating socially subsidized housing.
Placement
- Economybalanced
The point combines more public and subsidized housing with less red tape, tax relief for owners and a rejection of rent regulation.
- Climateleaning growth first
Climate and energy-saving requirements in building law are seen as an obstacle and are to be scaled back as part of simplification.