CDU on housing

The CDU wants to raise homeownership rates and introduce a "Brandenburg Bonus": tax-free allowances on the real estate transfer tax for people buying their first home to live in. Construction of affordable housing is also to be further subsidized and more building land designated. In the program's view, housing should not become a social problem.

More people should own a house or an apartment. First-time buyers who live in their home should pay less tax. This tax is paid when you buy property. Each adult gets 150,000 euros tax-free, each child 100,000 euros. There should also be more building land and money for affordable homes.

For first-time purchases of owner-occupied homes, 150,000 euros per adult and 100,000 euros per child would be exempt from the real estate transfer tax. The state is to fully co-finance federal funds for social housing and adjust its homeownership program to higher construction costs. A building land initiative is to open up new sites, use leeway in the state development plan, and increase planning support for municipalities. The "Alliance for Housing" and urban development funding are to continue. For construction, permits are to be deemed granted after a deadline, the competence center for sustainable building expanded, and barriers to timber construction removed.

The CDU wants construction to be faster, simpler and cheaper in order to create affordable housing. Permit procedures would be reviewed and building-law requirements reduced.

The CDU wants building to go faster. There should be fewer rules. Some buildings should need no permit. People should apply online.

The entire building-permit system in Brandenburg would be reviewed for efficiency. The goal is more deemed approvals, where an application counts as granted once a deadline passes, and more exemptions from permit requirements. Nature and species-protection hurdles in state law affecting land-use planning would be reduced. A "virtual building authority" would be rolled out statewide, digitizing procedures from application to decision. The CDU points to type approvals for serial and modular construction that have already been introduced.