CDU on housing

The CDU wants to make it easier for families to buy a home they live in themselves. First-time purchases are to benefit from an allowance on the Grunderwerbsteuer (property transfer tax), which would require the federal government to grant the states an opt-out clause. A state-level child-related homebuyer grant and rent-to-own models are also planned.

People who buy a house or apartment pay a tax. The CDU wants to cut this tax for a first home of your own. Part of the price should be tax-free. The federal government must change a law first.

The allowance is to be 250,000 euros per adult and 100,000 euros per child. The platform notes that the tax rose to 6.5 percent under the SPD-Green government and calls the existing 400 million euro support program a stopgap. State support for home ownership is to grow, for instance through the 'Jung kauft Alt' (young buys old) program. A rent-to-own support program is to be set up with NRW.BANK to help young families who lack enough equity. The CDU also announces a state-level Baukindergeld (child-related homebuyer grant).

The CDU wants more construction, more publicly subsidized apartments with regulated rents and more land designated for building. The platform names the shortage of buildable plots as the biggest obstacle. Tenant protection is also to be developed further.

The CDU wants more homes to be built. There should be more apartments with fixed, low rents. Cities and towns should find it easier to provide building land. Renters should stay protected.

People whose income is just above the threshold for subsidized housing are to have access to reduced-price apartments. State-owned plots are to be sold to municipalities more flexibly, and bonus schemes are to encourage private investors to build subsidized housing. Designating building land is to become simpler and planning faster. At the federal level, the CDU advocates an automatically adjusted heating cost allowance in Wohngeld (housing benefit). The tenant protection ordinance is to be developed further, and the state parliament is to set up a commission of inquiry on the future of housing.

The CDU wants to make construction faster, cheaper and more climate-friendly through new methods such as serial and modular building and 3D printing. Planning and permitting procedures are to become digital and shorter. To meet CO2 targets, the focus is to be on renovating buildings with high energy demand.

The CDU wants building to be faster and cheaper. New methods like 3D printing should help. Houses should use less energy. Permits should be digital and come faster.

A digital CO2 passport is to record a building's footprint over its entire lifetime. Support is planned for recycling of building materials, new insulation materials, timber construction and solar installations on roofs and above parking lots. State building law is to be developed further, and existing buildings are to be put to new use through conversion or replacement with little red tape. The state's commission on lowering construction costs is to continue its work. Funding for historic preservation is to stay at a high level, and a campaign is to attract young people to construction trades.