SPD: program for the 2023 Bremen state election

The SPD wants to make "Gute Arbeit" (decent work) a goal of its own in economic development policy. Public contracts are no longer to go to companies with precarious employment. A catalog of criteria, such as being bound by a collective agreement, is to be drawn up for this.

The SPD wants to promote good working conditions. Companies with insecure, badly paid jobs should not get contracts from the state. The SPD wants to write a list of rules for this. One rule could be that the company pays union-agreed wages.

The SPD wants the state to co-finance the Bremen steel plant's move to climate-neutral production. Permits are to be issued quickly, and power and hydrogen connections are to be supported. In the program's view, only green steel has a future.

The steel plant in Bremen should work without coal. The SPD wants the state to give money for this. Permits should come quickly. The plant should get more electricity and hydrogen. The SPD says only clean steel has a future.

The SPD wants to help Bremen's industry make its production and products climate neutral, using funding and suitable infrastructure. The focus is on Airbus, the Mercedes plant and commercial vehicle maker Faun. The program sees this as the way to keep industry in Bremen.

The SPD wants to help industry in Bremen. Factories and products should no longer harm the climate. The state gives funding and provides lines and land. This is mainly about Airbus, Mercedes and Faun. That way the jobs should stay.

The SPD wants to secure Bremen's position as Germany's most important space industry location. Companies are to get help finding skilled workers, and an extension of the ECOMAT research center will be examined. The state intends to lobby for the location in Berlin and Brussels.

Many companies in Bremen work for the space industry. The SPD wants it to stay that way. It wants to help companies find good specialists. It will look into a new building for a research center. Bremen should promote its space industry with the federal government and the EU.

The SPD wants to support business founders and keep funding start-ups through existing institutions. Service companies are to receive advice on digitalization and better network coverage. The party also wants to strengthen the food and beverage industry.

The SPD wants to help people who start a company. There are places for this, like the Starthaus or the Food Hub. The SPD wants to keep funding them. Service companies should get advice on going digital. Food companies should get help too.

The SPD wants to support logistics companies with digitalization, climate-neutral propulsion and securing skilled workers. At the same time, more collective agreements are to apply in the sector and cooperation between employers and unions is to be strengthened. Business parks for suppliers and contract logistics are to be developed further.

Many people in Bremen work in logistics. Logistics means storing and moving goods. The SPD wants to help companies with new technology. More workers should be paid under union wage agreements. Business parks for logistics should grow.

The SPD wants to develop the tourism strategies of both cities further, step up marketing for the state and make the sector more digital. Major events such as Sail Bremerhaven 2025 are to be supported. The cruise terminal in Bremerhaven is to be expanded and better linked to the city.

The SPD wants to bring more visitors to Bremen and Bremerhaven. It wants more advertising for the state. Big events like Sail 2025 should get support. The port for cruise ships in Bremerhaven should get bigger.

The SPD wants to support skilled-trades businesses with transformation guides and more advice on financing further training. The program sees the trades as decisive for climate neutrality, especially in buildings. Collective agreements, flexible working hours and dual study programs are meant to make these jobs more attractive.

The skilled trades need many new workers. They install new heating systems, for example. That helps the climate. The SPD wants to advise businesses on how to pay for training. Guides should help businesses with the change. Good pay and flexible hours should make the trades more popular.

The SPD wants skilled-trade businesses to be able to stay in city neighborhoods and plans to use commercial protection zones for that purpose. New sites are also meant to give the trades room to grow. The platform regards the trades as part of local supply.

The SPD wants craft businesses to stay in the neighborhoods. Special protection zones should help with this. In these zones, businesses cannot be pushed out. The trades should also get new sites.

The SPD wants to reorganize land policy and make greater use of existing commercial sites rather than keep developing new ones. Disused industrial sites are to be brought back into use, and the state should secure more preemption and repurchase rights. The platform justifies this with the scarcity of land in Germany's smallest state.

Bremen has little free land. So the SPD wants to reuse old industrial sites. The state should be able to buy land back more often. Land for businesses should stay land for businesses. Bremen wants to work with nearby towns.

The SPD wants to keep port investment a top priority and continue the ongoing investment and innovation drive. The Bremerhaven container terminal is to be strengthened by tying major shipping lines to the site long term and by adapting the Outer Weser channel. The SPD expects more commitment to seaports from the federal government.

The SPD wants to put a lot of money into the ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The container quay in Bremerhaven should be renewed. Big shipping companies should stay for a long time. The federal government should support the ports more.

The SPD wants to create a maritime science center in Bremerhaven that brings together research, society, and business. It is also meant to offer affordable space and infrastructure for start-ups coming out of the university and research institutes.

The SPD wants a center for ocean research in Bremerhaven. Researchers and companies should work together there. People who want to start a company after their studies should find cheap space there. This way, knowledge should turn into new jobs.

The SPD wants to give the state's inspection authorities more staff and expand workplace safety inspections. Five percent of businesses are to be inspected each year. It also wants to examine whether to set up a contact point where workers can report violations of the law.

The SPD wants more inspections in workplaces. The inspections check whether work is safe. Each year, 5 out of 100 businesses should be checked. The authorities should get enough staff for this. There may also be an office where people can report violations.

The SPD sees the public sector, as the state's largest employer, as bearing special responsibility. In the administration and state-owned companies, fixed-term contracts, temp work, mini-jobs, and involuntary part-time work are to be cut back. Job centers are also to place fewer people in temp work.

The state of Bremen is the biggest employer in Bremen. The SPD wants secure jobs there. There should be no more fixed-term contracts without a reason. The state should stop using mini-jobs. Temp work should only be used when there is a short peak in work.

The SPD wants to create jobs for people without vocational qualifications that pay enough to take part in society. To that end, Bremen's Landesmindestlohn (state minimum wage) is to stay in place. Publicly subsidized employment is to give a chance to people who cannot gain a foothold in the labor market.

Some people have no vocational qualification. The SPD wants enough jobs for them too. The pay should be enough to live on. So Bremen's own minimum wage should stay. The state should also support jobs for people who struggle to find work.

The SPD wants to safeguard Bremen's Tariftreue-Gesetz (law requiring contractors to honor collective agreements) through ongoing checks so it is not circumvented. Collective agreements are also to be declared generally binding more often, meaning they apply to all businesses in a sector. Together with employers and unions, it wants to look for ways to do this at the federal level too.

In Bremen, companies that want state contracts must pay union-agreed wages. The SPD wants to keep checking this. Companies should not be able to get around the rule. Wage agreements should also apply to a whole industry more often. The SPD wants to push for this at the federal level too.

The SPD wants to write the Chamber of Employees, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Crafts into Bremen's state constitution. The transformation of the economy is to be coordinated from the Rathaus (the mayor's office) and shaped jointly with unions and employers. The program sees a strong partnership between the two sides as a precondition for decent work.

Bremen has three chambers: for employees, for commerce, and for skilled trades. The SPD wants to write them into Bremen's constitution. The mayor's office should lead the change in the economy. Unions and employers should have a say in it.

The SPD wants to keep Bremen's €4,000 bonus for completing advanced vocational training. It would continue to cover not only master craftsperson certificates but also advanced training in fields such as childcare and nursing.

In Bremen, people get 4,000 euros when they finish advanced job training. The SPD wants to keep this. The money is not only for master craftspeople. People in nursing and childcare can get it too.

The SPD wants to found a transition company that supports workers who have to switch industries or occupations. The program argues that jobs will be lost as the economy is restructured and that the standard support tools are not enough.

The economy is changing. Some people will have to change jobs. The SPD wants to set up a new organization for them. It gives advice and helps with the change. It also finds training courses for them.

Employees who go back to earn a vocational qualification would receive €200 a month as an expense allowance. The SPD argues that so far only employers are reimbursed, while the employees themselves bear the effort and extra costs.

Some workers go back to get a job qualification. The SPD wants to give them 200 euros a month. Today only the employer gets money. But the workers also have costs and hard work.

The SPD wants to test a right to further training in a state pilot program and create a Landes-BAföG (state training grant) for low-skilled workers. It is meant for people who want to move up to skilled-worker level independently of their employer and currently get no support.

The SPD wants to test a right to job training in Bremen. The state would pay a new training grant. It is for people without a job qualification. With it, they can become skilled workers.

The SPD wants to use a Bundesrat initiative to raise the national minimum pay for apprentices. If the federal government does not act, Bremen would introduce its own minimum apprentice pay at least equal to the maximum BAföG student aid rate.

Trainees should get more money. The SPD wants a higher minimum pay for trainees in all of Germany. If that does not happen, Bremen should act alone. Then trainees in Bremen get at least 861 euros a month.

The SPD wants to keep the welcome bonus for apprentices and raise it to at least €300. It also plans a relocation grant, more apprentice dormitories and cheaper public transit tickets.

Trainees in Bremen get a welcome payment. The SPD wants to raise it to at least 300 euros. Trainees who move from far away should get money for the move. There should be more housing for trainees. Buses and trains should cost less for young people.

The SPD wants job centers to counsel unemployed people more intensively toward a vocational qualification and expand suitable programs. Unskilled people who start qualification-oriented training when taking a job would get a state bonus of €200 a month.

Many jobless people in Bremen have no job qualification. The SPD wants job centers to advise them better. There should be more courses that lead to a qualification. People who do such training get 200 euros a month.

The SPD wants to extend publicly subsidized jobs for the long-term unemployed beyond the current five-year maximum and create a state program for it. Projects would be located mainly in neighborhoods with many long-term unemployed residents.

Some people are out of work for a very long time. There are subsidized jobs for them, but only for five years. The SPD wants to make these jobs last longer. The state would start a new program for this. The jobs should be in the areas where these people live.

The SPD wants to expand municipal support services for unemployed people and make them easier to access, such as debt and addiction counseling, psychosocial support and childcare. Health promotion would be added as a new municipal service.

Jobless people often have other problems too. For example debt or addiction. The cities offer counseling for this. The SPD wants more of it. Help with health should be added as a new service.

The SPD wants to bring counseling, language support and job placement directly into residential neighborhoods. It argues that many people rarely leave their neighborhood and are reluctant to visit public offices downtown.

Many people do not like going to offices downtown. So the SPD wants to offer advice in the neighborhood. Advisers should also go to the people. There should be more German courses close to home. Job placement should happen there too.

The SPD wants to tackle the skilled-labor shortage with training and continuing education in companies and calls this its highest priority. Vocational training and university study should be seen as equal in society. The platform cites the transformation of the economy and the retirement of the baby boomers as reasons.

Many companies cannot find enough skilled workers. So the SPD wants more training inside companies. Job training should count as much as a university degree. Companies, workers and politicians should work together on this.

The SPD wants to shape the changes that digitalization and automation bring to port work together with employers and unions. Training is meant to prevent a skills shortage, and where tasks disappear, workers should be able to move to other parts of the port. At EU level it calls for a fairness agreement among seaports.

Work in the port is changing because of computers and machines. The SPD wants workers to get training for this. People who lose their task should be able to work elsewhere in the port. In Europe, fair rules should apply to all ports.

The SPD wants to further develop employment conditions at universities in order to attract and retain researchers. Student assistants are to be employed under a collective bargaining agreement, and young researchers are to get reliable career paths.

The SPD wants better jobs at universities. Young researchers should be able to plan their careers. Work and family should fit together better. Students with a job at the university should get a collective agreement. A collective agreement sets pay and working hours for many workers.

The SPD wants students to be paid in the future for mandatory internships in the state's public service. This is meant to make the public sector more attractive early on in order to recruit skilled workers.

Many students have to do an internship. The SPD wants to pay for these internships in the public sector. This also applies to companies that Bremen mostly owns. That way, more young people may want to work for the state later.

The SPD wants to fight poverty mainly through higher incomes. It relies on broader collective bargaining coverage, the minimum wage and better pay in fields such as paid care work.

The SPD says poverty comes from pay that is too low. More companies should pay according to union wage agreements. These agreements set pay and working conditions. Care jobs should also be paid better.

At the federal level, the SPD wants to push for an adequately funded Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit), a new way of calculating standard benefit rates and a better basic pension. In Bremen, it plans subsidies for new household appliances for people receiving Bürgergeld (citizen's income) or housing benefits.

The SPD wants to help people with little money more. There should be a good basic child benefit nationwide. Bremen should give money for new home appliances. This is for people who get citizen's income or housing benefits.

The SPD wants to stabilize and expand publicly funded employment for the long-term unemployed. Additional funding routes are meant to keep people from falling back into basic welfare once a program ends.

Some people have been out of work for a very long time. The state pays for special jobs for them. The SPD wants more of these jobs. People should not end up without work again afterward. The jobs should be in poorer neighborhoods.

The SPD wants to enable more people with disabilities to work in the general labor market. The public sector is to lead with a 6 percent quota for severely disabled employees, and the sheltered workshops are to be developed further.

Many people with disabilities work in special workshops. The SPD wants more of them to work in regular companies. In public offices, 6 in 100 employees should be severely disabled. The workshops should change. There should be more companies open to everyone.

The SPD pursues the vision of a 10-minute city in which shops, doctors, transit stops and services can be reached quickly. This is meant to let older people live independently in their familiar surroundings. The "Ältere im Quartier" (older people in the neighborhood) program is to be continued and expanded.

Older people should be able to stay in their neighborhood. Everything important should be close by. That means shops, doctors and transit stops. Paths should be short and free of barriers. The SPD wants to grow the program "Ältere im Quartier."

The SPD wants to evaluate the preventive home visit model and, if successful, turn it into a regular service. The "Organisationsassistenz" (organizational assistance) project is also to be made permanent, and meeting places are to be strengthened to counter loneliness in old age.

Some older people get help too late. That is why there are preventive home visits. The SPD wants to review these visits and keep them if they work. Volunteers should keep helping older people with paperwork. Meeting places should help against loneliness.

The SPD wants higher pay, better working conditions and broader collective bargaining coverage in the social services sector, financed through service fees and public grants. Training and university places in nursing, child care and social work are also to grow noticeably. It seeks a partnership of equals with civil society and welfare associations.

Many people work in care, daycare and social work. The SPD wants them to be paid better. More union wage agreements should apply. These are fixed rules for pay and work. There should be more training and university places. Skilled workers from abroad should also be able to come.

The SPD wants to close the pay gap between women and men. To do so, it aims to raise collective bargaining coverage, tighten the federal Pay Transparency Act and push for a gender equality law covering the private sector.

Women often earn less than men. The SPD wants to change that. More companies should pay union-agreed wages. Companies and public offices should have to check their pay. There should also be an equality law for private companies.

The SPD wants to keep funding community centers, neighborhood centers, and leisure facilities for children and teens, with equal standards in every district. Cultural and sports offerings are to be brought to people where they live. Free Wi-Fi is to be rolled out more widely in public facilities and across the city.

The SPD wants to keep giving money to meeting places in the districts. All districts should be equally well equipped. Culture and sports should come to the neighborhoods. There should be more free Wi-Fi in the city.

The SPD wants to make public-sector jobs more attractive in the competition for skilled workers. This includes more flexible working-time models, good pay with union wage deals applied to civil servants, co-determination and more staff for schools, daycare and climate protection.

The government is looking for skilled workers. So the SPD wants to make government jobs more attractive. Working hours should be more flexible. Civil servants should get the same raises as other public employees. Schools, daycare and climate protection should get more staff.

The SPD wants trainees in the public sector and in publicly owned companies to receive a permanent job as a rule once they finish training. It also wants more dual study programs to recruit young talent.

People who train with the government should be able to stay afterward. The SPD wants permanent jobs for them. This should also apply in public companies. There should also be more dual study programs. These combine study and work.

The Bremen SPD advocates at the federal level for adequate pensions and wants the Grundrente (basic pension) evaluated and improved. The Senate is to actively inform people about basic income support in old age and housing benefits so that less old-age poverty goes unnoticed.

More and more older people do not have enough money. The SPD wants to push for adequate pensions at the federal level. The basic pension should be improved. The Senate should tell older people about their entitlements. Housing benefits are one example.

The SPD wants to introduce Grundsteuer C in Bremen, a higher property tax on undeveloped land that is ready for building. In the Bundesrat, it wants gains from selling residential property not used by the owner to always be taxed. Investors in large projects are to share infrastructure costs.

Some people buy land and leave it empty. They wait for prices to go up. The SPD wants a special tax for that. Profits from selling rented homes should always be taxed too. Big investors should help pay for roads and similar things.

The SPD backs the federal coalition's plans for a "family taxation" model. It considers Ehegattensplitting (joint tax splitting for married couples) outdated because it discourages married women from working.

Married couples often pay less tax today. This is called spousal splitting. The SPD says it leads many women to work little or not at all. So it supports a new family tax model at the federal level.

The SPD rejects a return to the pre-COVID policy of budget consolidation, arguing that climate action and the expansion of schools and daycare could not be managed that way. Instead, public companies are to take on more tasks that the regular budget cannot cover alone under the Schuldenbremse (debt brake).

Bremen needs a lot of money for climate action, schools and daycare. The debt brake limits new debt in the budget. So the SPD wants to use public companies more. They should help pay for big building projects.

The SPD wants Bremen to make the fullest possible use of federal and EU funding programs for the climate-friendly transformation. Government departments are to get better at identifying programs and securing money. At the federal level, it wants co-financing requirements that do not overburden financially weak states.

The federal government and the EU give money for climate-friendly change. The SPD wants Bremen to get a lot of it. Government offices should get better at applying for this money. Poor states should not have to pay too much themselves.

The SPD wants to increase the population of Bremen and Bremerhaven because a large share of the state's tax revenue depends on it. Bonuses for first-time residence registration are to rise, and political decisions should not encourage people to move away.

Bremen gets more money when more people live there. So the SPD wants to attract new residents. People who register in Bremen or Bremerhaven for the first time should get a higher bonus. Students and trainees in particular should register there.

The SPD criticizes the debt brake and wants to examine what unused leeway it offers for important projects. It is open to exempting the two cities from Bremen's debt brake and backs emergency loans for climate action and the consequences of recent crises.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The SPD thinks this rule is too strict. It wants to check where Bremen can still borrow money. The cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven could be exempted from the rule. Then there would be more money for schools, daycare and roads.

The SPD wants to keep pressing the federal government and the other states for a solution to legacy debt. It justifies this with the burdens that Bremen's contribution to tackling the climate crisis and other crises entails.

Bremen has a lot of old debt. The SPD wants the federal government and the other states to help with it. It will keep pushing for this. Debt that the state took over from its cities should also count.

The SPD wants to steer additional funds mainly into building, modernizing and equipping schools and daycare centers and into the recommendations of the climate commission (Klima-Enquete). Projects that cut a lot of CO2, strengthen the economy and bring in outside funding get preference.

The SPD wants to spend extra money on schools and daycare first. New buildings should be built and old ones modernized. The second big goal is climate protection. Public buildings should use less energy. Projects that bring in outside money come first.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for a tax system in which those with greater means contribute more. It pursues taxation of wealth and inheritances, a higher top income tax rate and a financial transaction tax, and backs EU efforts to tax international corporations.

The SPD wants rich people to pay more taxes. This concerns high incomes, large fortunes and inheritances. Trades on financial markets should also be taxed. Big international companies should pay more taxes. The SPD pushes for this at the federal level and in the EU.

The SPD calls for a burden-sharing scheme for the fallout from the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine, similar to the one after World War II. A windfall profits tax is to skim off profits that, in the party's view, companies made in the crises without earning them.

The crises cost many people money. But some companies earned a great deal in the crises. The SPD wants to balance this out. It wants a windfall profits tax. That is a tax on especially high crisis profits.

The SPD wants to ensure efficient tax collection in Bremen and staff the tax offices with enough auditors. It regards tax fraud as a crime that weakens trust in the rule of law.

Some people do not pay their taxes honestly. The SPD calls this a crime. It wants tax offices to have enough auditors. That way the state can collect taxes better.

The SPD wants more apartments in downtown Bremen, especially on the upper floors of buildings. Housing is to play a larger role there than before and bring life to the center in the evenings and on Sundays. A share of 30 percent is to be built as subsidized housing.

More people should live in downtown Bremen. The apartments should mainly be on the upper floors. 30 out of 100 new apartments should be low-cost. That way the city is lively in the evening and on Sundays too.

The SPD wants everyone to have barrier-free access in their own neighborhood to what they need day to day. This guiding idea of the 10-minute city is to be written into all municipal planning in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The SPD wants a 10-minute city. This means everything important is close to home. Examples are shops, doctors, daycare and bus stops. The cities should keep this in mind in all their planning.

The SPD wants to give existing urban renewal programs permanent funding and staff and to appoint district developers. Residents are to be involved early, and neighborhoods are to combine housing, work and green space.

The SPD wants to develop city districts better. Each district should get its own experts. People who live there should have a say early on. There should be squares and green areas for everyone. Homes and jobs should be close together.

The SPD wants to realign Bremen's housing construction strategy and create the conditions for 10,000 more housing units. The aim is an affordable option for everyone and fewer people moving to the surrounding region.

The SPD wants many new homes to be built. 10,000 new homes should become possible. Everyone should find an affordable home in Bremen. Fewer people should move away to nearby towns.

The SPD wants to step up social housing construction, keep the 30 percent social housing quota for new buildings and raise it in expensive neighborhoods. More middle-income households are to gain access to subsidized apartments.

The SPD wants more low-cost homes. In new buildings, 30 percent should stay social housing. In expensive areas the share should be higher. More people should be able to get a subsidized home.

The SPD plans a building program called "Lebenslang in meinem Quartier" (lifelong in my neighborhood). It is meant to let older people find a suitable barrier-free home in the district they know.

Many older people want to stay in their part of town. The SPD wants suitable homes built for them. The homes should have no barriers. People in wheelchairs should be able to live there well too.

The SPD wants to keep helping families with little equity buy an affordable home. Bremen's Eigenheimzuschuss (home-buyer grant) is to stay, become more attractive for existing buildings and be supplemented with low-interest loans.

The SPD wants to help families buy a house. This is for families with little money of their own. They will keep getting a grant. There should also be cheap loans. New row houses should be built too.

The SPD wants to create more residence halls for apprentices and students. This is meant to give these groups affordable housing and take pressure off the rest of the housing market.

The SPD wants to build more dorms. Apprentices and students live there. This makes housing cheaper for them. And other homes stay free for other people.

The SPD wants building projects to move faster. Permit deadlines are to be shortened, the building authority is to get more staff, and applications are to be filed digitally.

The SPD wants building to go faster. The office should approve applications more quickly. The office should get more staff. People should be able to apply for a permit online.

The SPD wants to introduce a Mietspiegel (official rent index) for the city of Bremen and apply the rent brake on that basis. In the Bundesrat it wants to push for stronger tenancy law, including a lower modernization surcharge.

The SPD wants to protect renters better. Bremen should get a rent index. That is a list of usual rents. With it, the rent brake should apply. Landlords should be allowed to pass on less of their upgrade costs.

The SPD also wants to gain new apartments by extending and converting existing buildings. This is meant to use less land, pave over less ground and save energy in producing building materials.

The SPD wants to build homes on top of existing buildings. Examples are supermarkets, offices or parking garages. This way less new land is needed. It also saves energy and building materials.

The SPD wants to upgrade former working-class districts through targeted urban development projects. In the Überseestadt, a new center with shops, green space and a neighborhood square is to be created.

The SPD wants to make older districts nicer. It plans building projects in these districts. The Überseestadt area should get a new center. It will have shops, green space and a square. The tram should run farther there.

The SPD wants to redevelop several Bremen districts, including Woltmershausen, Hemelingen, Vegesack, Kattenturm and Huchting. Plans include new housing, commercial space, public squares and better connections, partly funded through special programs drawing on urban development grants.

The SPD wants to improve several districts in Bremen. New homes, squares and workplaces should be built there. Hemelingen should get a market square. A new bridge should link Woltmershausen with the Überseestadt area.

The SPD wants to turn the area around the main station into two residential neighborhoods: the Falkenquartier to the west and the Rembertiquartier to the east. Large road structures are to be scaled back to make room for housing, green space and places to meet.

The SPD wants to rebuild the area near the main station. Two neighborhoods for living should grow there. Big roads and a traffic circle should shrink or go away. Homes and green spaces should be built on the free land.

The SPD wants targeted upgrades for Gröpelingen and Blumenthal because, in the program's view, these “arrival neighborhoods” do special work for the whole city. The city-owned company BREBAU is to take charge of neighborhood development, alongside special investment programs and an action program for Blumenthal.

The SPD wants extra support for two districts: Gröpelingen and Blumenthal. Many newcomers settle there first. The city should fix up buildings and create squares there. The districts should become attractive for families, trainees and students.

The SPD wants to set up a task force at the building authority that holds owners accountable for serious structural defects. It also wants to keep using the Wohnraumschutzgesetz (housing protection act) against vacant apartments and have the city buy large housing complexes.

Some buildings are in very bad shape. The SPD wants a special team at the building authority for this. It should make owners fix their buildings. The city should also act against empty apartments. The city wants to buy large housing complexes itself.

The SPD wants more land in city ownership and plans a land fund that buys plots in a targeted way. Public land is to be allocated primarily through long-term ground leases rather than sold, and this priority is to be written into law.

The SPD wants the city to own more land. A land fund should buy plots. The city should mostly lease its land instead of selling it. That means the city stays the owner and others can use the land for a long time. Sales should only happen as exceptions.

The SPD wants to expand neighborhood centers and other local facilities and secure proven projects with base funding. The programs “Lebendige Quartiere” and “Wohnen in Nachbarschaften” are to continue, and residents are to have a say in building plans.

The SPD wants more meeting places in the districts. Good projects should get steady money. Two funding programs for neighborhoods should continue. People should have a say in planning for their district.

The SPD wants to take action against landlords who let apartments decay or charge grossly excessive rents. The public housing companies GEWOBA, BREBAU and STÄWOG are not to be sold, not even in part. Socially oriented landlords are to get priority for new subsidized housing.

Some landlords do not take care of their apartments. The SPD wants stricter checks on them. The public order office should get more staff for this. Large housing complexes should have to employ a caretaker. The city's housing companies should not be sold.

The SPD wants to create tenant co-determination modeled on works councils. Elected tenant councils are to have a say in neighborhood matters and send a representative to the supervisory board, starting with public housing companies.

Tenants should have more say. The SPD wants to set up tenant councils for this. Tenants elect these councils. The councils have a say on questions about the neighborhood. At first this should apply to the city's housing companies.

The SPD wants affordable, senior-friendly housing with services to be available in every district. Older people should be able to stay in their familiar surroundings for as long as possible.

Older people should be able to stay in their district. They need suitable homes for that. The homes should be affordable and offer everyday help. The SPD wants such homes in all districts.

The SPD wants to make "Housing First" a permanent part of the regular support system and add 50 apartments per year. Low-threshold assistance is to remain in place alongside it, and new housing options for homeless people are to be created.

The SPD wants to help people without a home. With "Housing First," they get their own apartment first. After that they can choose to get advice. Each year 50 apartments should be added. Emergency shelters, meals and medical help should continue.

The SPD names fighting child poverty as its top priority and wants lasting financial security for young people. Since Bremen cannot achieve this alone, it wants to press at the federal level for a swift and adequately funded Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance).

In Bremen, one in five children grows up poor. The SPD wants to change that. Bremen cannot do it alone. So the federal government should quickly bring in the Kindergrundsicherung. That is a new payment for children. It should be high enough.

The SPD wants to give youth welfare offices the staff and money they need and expand preventive support for families. Child protection is not to be cut back even when budgets are tight.

Youth welfare offices help children and families in need. The SPD wants to give them enough staff and money. Families should get help early. Children should stay with their family where possible. Bremen should not save money on protecting children.

The SPD wants to examine whether foster parents in Bremen can receive a benefit comparable to Elterngeld (parental allowance). At the federal level it is pressing for social insurance options for emergency foster care and possibly full-time foster care.

Foster parents take other people's children into their home. Often one parent stays home to do this. But foster parents get no parental allowance. The SPD wants to check whether Bremen can pay them something similar. They should also have better insurance.

The SPD wants to continue and expand the "Freikarte" for leisure activities if it is well used. The youth ticket for public transit is to be funded permanently, and support against the effects of the pandemic on children is to be reviewed and partly continued.

Children and teens in Bremen have a free card for leisure activities. The SPD wants to keep it if many use it. The youth ticket for buses and trains should stay too. Children suffered during Covid. Good support for them should continue.

The SPD wants to fund counseling and meeting places for single-parent families on a lasting basis and close gaps. Support is to aim more at stabilizing people's lives over the longer term rather than only at quick job placement.

Many mothers and fathers in Bremen live alone with their children. There are counseling services and meeting places for them. The SPD wants to pay for these reliably. Where something is missing, new services should be added. Everyone should know where to find help.

The SPD wants to launch a pilot project giving single parents, and possibly older people, vouchers for household services. It is meant to ease everyday life and at the same time promote employment in this field.

Single parents have a lot to manage every day. The SPD wants to give them vouchers for help at home. Older people may get such vouchers too. For now this is a trial. It should also create new jobs.

The SPD wants to make it easier for single parents to get childcare and to tailor labor market policy to them. This includes more part-time vocational training, a qualification drive and special offers for immigrant single mothers.

Single parents need a childcare spot. The SPD wants to help them find one. There should be more spots, also early and late in the day. Single parents should find it easier to do part-time job training. Immigrant mothers should get special help.

The SPD wants to better inform parents with physical or intellectual disabilities or psychiatric illnesses about their rights. According to the platform, the legally established parental assistance is often not put into practice.

Some parents have a disability or a mental illness. They have a right to help with raising their children. This help is called parental assistance. Many parents do not get it. The SPD wants to tell parents more about their rights.

The SPD wants to keep expanding childcare places, including at early and late hours, because it sees this as the key to equality for women in the labor market. The public sector is to lead the way on balancing work and private life.

The SPD wants more childcare places. Care should also be open early in the morning and late in the day. This lets more women work. Public offices should become very family-friendly.

The SPD wants more playgrounds, exercise areas, and meeting places for young people in every neighborhood, all free to use. No child should be disadvantaged in leisure options because of where they live or their parents' income. Young people are to help shape these spaces.

Children and teens need places to play and meet. The SPD wants more such places in all neighborhoods. Using them should cost nothing. Young people should have a say in the planning.

The SPD wants to continue open youth work and fund it noticeably better. Every district is to receive a base amount, with additional money allocated according to local need. Facilities for girls are to be secured and grant procedures simplified.

The SPD wants more money for open youth work. Every district should get at least 100,000 euros. Districts with more problems should get more. Girls' centers should also be able to keep working safely.

The SPD wants to strengthen Bremen as a location for science and innovation and turn it into the leading technology city in the north. To do so, it is counting on digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The University of Bremen is to regain its status as a University of Excellence.

The SPD wants Bremen to be strong in research and technology. Bremen should become the main technology city in the north. The SPD is counting on digital tools, artificial intelligence, and robots. The university should become a University of Excellence again. That is an award for very good research.

The SPD wants a state-level continuing education drive to supplement federal funding and close gaps. Workers are to be able to advance in their careers, switch occupations, and catch up on vocational qualifications. Where change eliminates tasks, jobs are to be preserved wherever possible.

The world of work is changing a lot. So the SPD wants to support more job training for adults. People should be able to move up or change jobs. They should also be able to earn a qualification later in life. This should make sure there are enough skilled workers.

The SPD wants to narrow the gap in apprenticeship places and set up a training fund in Bremen for that purpose. The fund would support companies that train apprentices and pay for cross-company support services in dual vocational training.

Bremen has too few training places. So the SPD wants a training fund. This is a pot of money for job training. It helps companies that train young people. It also pays for help for trainees.

The SPD wants as many apprentices as possible to be kept on by their employer, with the public sector and public companies leading the way. Dual training, dual study programs and university study are also to count as equal, with easier switching between them.

Trainees should be able to stay at their company after training. The city and its companies should promise this where possible. They should also train more people than they need. Job training and university should have the same value. Switching between them should be easier.

The SPD wants to create large vocational training campuses where related occupations are taught together. This is meant to reduce the fragmentation of vocational schools, improve support for apprentices and allow shared use of rooms and machinery.

The SPD wants to build big places for job training. They are called campuses. People in similar jobs learn there together. They share rooms and machines. Each campus should have its own daycare.

The SPD wants to sharply reduce the many programs for young people without an apprenticeship and create one central program. It would focus on practical skills and prepare for dual training rather than mainly aiming at school certificates.

Some young people do not find a training place after school. There are many different programs for them. The SPD says this is too confusing. It wants one central program. It should mainly prepare them for job training.

The SPD wants to strengthen career guidance in middle grades, with more time for internships and dedicated youth employment agency contacts at schools. Students are to get to know the options besides the Abitur better.

Students should learn about jobs earlier. They should have more time for internships. Every school should have advisers for job training. There should be required days about vocational training. Parents should get advice in several languages.

The SPD wants to bring school-based training programs, especially in health and childcare, closer to the dual system, with a training contract and pay. Places in practice-integrated training for childcare workers (PiA) are to triple by 2024 and quadruple by the end of the term.

Some jobs are learned only at a school. Trainees there often get no pay. The SPD wants to change this. Trainees should get a contract and pay. For childcare workers there should be four times as many such places.

The SPD wants to update the planning for expanding Bremen as a science location and align it with the existing research and transfer priorities. Exchange between academia and the regional economy is to be strengthened to keep businesses competitive during the transformation. Artificial intelligence is seen as an important future field.

The SPD wants to keep expanding research in Bremen. Universities and companies should work together more closely. This should help the region's economy. The universities should also be better connected internationally.

The SPD wants Bremen to do better in the federal excellence competition. A second research cluster is meant to pave the way for the University of Bremen to regain the status of a University of Excellence.

The federal government honors very good universities. They are called Universities of Excellence. The SPD wants the University of Bremen to be one of them again. For this, another big research project should win in the competition.

The SPD wants to align degree programs more closely with the region's need for skilled workers. In the long run, everyone with a bachelor's degree from Bremen should get a suitable master's place in the state, and Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences should keep growing.

The SPD wants more places for master's degrees. A master's is the second degree after the bachelor's. People who finish a bachelor's in Bremen should be able to do a master's there too. The university in Bremerhaven should grow. This gives local companies more skilled workers.

The SPD wants more students from Bremen to go abroad and more students from abroad to come to Bremen. Among other things, more degree programs are to be offered in English.

The SPD wants more exchange with other countries. Students from Bremen should be able to go abroad more easily. More students from other countries should come to Bremen. For this, there should be more degree programs in English.

The SPD wants to create more dual study programs, which combine university study with company training, and set uniform quality standards for them. It also wants easier movement between vocational training and university so that more people without the Abitur (university entrance diploma) can study.

In a dual study program, you learn at a university and in a company. The SPD wants more of these programs. The same rules should apply to all of them. People without the usual school diploma should also find it easier to study. The workload for students should have clear limits.

The SPD wants to push for a comprehensive overhaul of BAföG (federal student aid). Aid is to become independent of parents' income, apply without age limits, and gradually return to being paid entirely as a grant.

BAföG is money from the state for students. The SPD wants to change BAföG a lot. The money should no longer depend on what parents earn. There should be no age limit anymore. Step by step, students should no longer have to pay the money back.

The SPD wants to further lower the administrative fee that students pay and eventually eliminate it. In addition, the scholarships for starting university are to be kept and expanded.

Students in Bremen pay a fee for administration. The SPD wants to lower this fee further. Later it should go away completely. There are also scholarships for starting university. A scholarship is money to support students. These scholarships should stay and grow.

The SPD wants to bring the University of Bremen downtown with a second location and to set up a city campus and a health campus there. The aim is to link research more closely with civil society, culture, the creative sector and start-ups, and to bring more life into the center.

The University of Bremen should get a second location. It should be in the city center. Then many young people will come downtown every day. The SPD hopes for new things to do and for student housing.

The SPD wants to support Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences in expanding near the city center and to secure funding for the "Schaufenster der Wissenschaft" (showcase of science). This is meant to let people experience the city's research in the middle of town. It also plans investment in events, culture and the digital shift of shops and service providers.

Bremerhaven has a university in the city center. The SPD wants it to grow there. There is also the "showcase of science." People can experience research there. The SPD wants to give lasting money for it.

The SPD wants nursery care for children under three to become free of charge in the long run. Currently, daycare is free for children aged three to six.

Daycare is free for children aged three to six. The SPD wants the same for nurseries later on. Nurseries are for children under three. Parents would then no longer pay fees.

The SPD wants every child to attend daycare before starting school and aims to make this mandatory in the long run. It justifies this with a smoother transition to elementary school and with lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SPD wants all children to go to daycare before school. Later, this should become a duty. The SPD says children learn important things in daycare. That makes starting school easier.

The SPD wants to keep expanding childcare until every child can be offered a place close to home. The focus is to be on socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Opening hours are to become longer and more flexible.

The SPD wants more places in nurseries and daycare centers. Every child should get a place nearby. Poorer neighborhoods should get more places first. Daycare centers should also open longer and at other times.

The SPD wants to deploy more trained staff per child in daycare centers over time. Groups in challenging settings are to become smaller so staff can better meet children's needs.

The SPD wants more trained staff in daycare groups. Each staff member would then care for fewer children. Groups in difficult neighborhoods should get smaller. This should happen step by step.

The SPD wants to support children and teenagers in learning German throughout their entire school career. To that end, teachers and daycare staff are to receive further training, the language support plan is to be implemented, and daycare centers and elementary schools are to be linked more closely.

Many children need help learning German. The SPD wants to offer this help from daycare until the end of high school. All teachers and daycare staff should get extra training for this. Daycare centers and elementary schools should work together more closely.

The SPD stands by Oberschulen (comprehensive secondary schools) and Gymnasien as the two school types that both offer every diploma. In the long term, a single school for all remains its goal. Oberschulen without their own upper level are to guarantee a path to the Abitur through school networks.

Bremen has two kinds of secondary school. Both offer every diploma. That should stay. In the long run, the SPD wants one shared school for all children. Every school should offer a safe path to the final exam.

The SPD wants to greatly expand compulsory all-day schooling in Bremen and Bremerhaven so that the legal entitlement to all-day care can be met from 2026/27. For this, and because of rising student numbers, schools are to be newly built and renovated.

The SPD wants many more all-day schools. Children learn there in the afternoon too. From the 2026/27 school year, children have a right to this. The SPD wants to build new schools and renovate old ones.

The SPD wants to tackle the teacher shortage by making working conditions more attractive. In addition, foreign qualifications are to be recognized more easily, and teachers from abroad are to be able to top up their qualifications while working.

Schools do not have enough teachers. The SPD wants to make working in schools more attractive. Teachers from other countries should find it easier to work here. They should be able to catch up on training while working.

The SPD wants to further develop inclusive schooling. All schools are gradually to get permanent school assistants and enough special education staff. Schools in challenging settings are to have two professionals per classroom and smaller classes.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The SPD wants more support for this in schools. All schools should get permanent assistants. In difficult neighborhoods, each class should have two professionals. Classes there should also be smaller.

The SPD considers grades an inadequate reflection of learning and favors written progress reports. Teachers are to get more time and tools to assess individual students' learning. Supplementary funds for schools are to be kept at least at their current level.

The SPD says grades do not show well what a child has learned. It prefers reports on learning progress. Teachers discuss these reports with parents and students. Teachers should get more time to check how each child is doing.

The SPD wants every young person to find a suitable next step into vocational training or university after school. Those who need a lot of support are to get a personal career mentor early on, up to their entry into working life. A transition system is to open a path to training readiness even for young people without sufficient qualifications.

After school, all young people should find a next step. That can be job training or university. Some need a lot of help with this. They should get a personal mentor. The mentor helps until they start working.

The SPD wants to restructure the funds schools receive for teaching materials so that digital textbooks and digital tools chosen by the schools themselves can be paid for. Additional computer science offerings are to be expanded and reach as many students as possible.

The SPD wants more digital school books. Schools should be able to pick the programs that fit them. For this, the money for learning materials will be shared out in a new way. There will also be more computer science offerings. Computer science is knowledge about computers and programs.

The SPD wants to launch a dedicated action plan so that significantly fewer young people leave school without a diploma. Its focus is mainly on boys from low-income households with little connection to educational institutions where German is not the main language.

Some young people leave school without a diploma. The SPD wants this to happen much less often. It wants to make an action plan for this. The plan should mainly help boys from poor families. These families often do not speak German at home.

The SPD wants schools to teach more than before how to check information critically. It justifies this with disinformation and conspiracy narratives on social media, which in its view weaken trust in state institutions.

There is a lot of false news on the internet. The SPD wants children to learn at school how to check news. They should also understand how media work. The SPD says this protects democracy.

The SPD wants to expand education about Europe, both in schools and in teacher training. It justifies this with the war in Ukraine and the goal of keeping the idea of a united, peaceful Europe alive.

The SPD wants children to learn more about Europe. They should get to know values like peace, democracy and human rights. Future teachers should also learn more about Europe. The reason is the war in Ukraine.

The SPD wants to strengthen environmental education facilities and fund them permanently through the regular budget so that more children experience nature. Bremen's Schullandheime (school country hostels) are to be preserved; every child should be able to visit one at least once during their school years.

Children should learn more about plants and animals. The SPD wants to give steady funding to places for environmental education. The city should keep spaces for nature and nature-style playgrounds. Every child should be able to go to a school country hostel once.

The SPD wants schools and daycare centers never again to be closed the way they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. It points to worse opportunities and greater emotional strain for children from poor families.

During COVID, schools and daycare centers were closed at times. This hurt poor children the most. The SPD does not want such closures again.

The SPD wants to keep evening out unequal starting conditions in daycare and school. Institutions with many children in difficult circumstances are to get the best resources, and existing support measures are to grow.

Not all children get the same start in daycare and school. The SPD wants to even this out. Schools and daycare centers with many disadvantaged children should be the best equipped. There should also be more language support.

The SPD wants to improve working conditions in nursing care and health care and to push at the federal level for a reform of how they are financed. It should be possible to make collective agreements binding for the whole sector. Health services, medical technology and research are also to be linked more closely through the Gesundheitscampus (health campus).

Very many people work in care and hospitals, mostly women. The SPD wants better pay and better working conditions for them. Union wage agreements should be able to apply to all employers in the sector. The federal government should fund care and health better. Research, technology and hospitals should work together more closely.

The SPD wants prisoners to remain in the statutory health insurance system while in custody. This is meant to ease rehabilitation and secure medical care of equal quality. For mentally ill prisoners, it calls for inpatient treatment places.

Prisoners should stay in public health insurance. Federal laws must be changed for this. Mentally ill prisoners should get into a clinic quickly. For this there should be at least one reserved bed outside the prison.

The SPD considers the welfare associations' service centers indispensable and wants to examine whether they can be linked with employment projects. Counseling on housing and dementia is to be funded according to need, and the care support centers are to be expanded at the neighborhood level.

More and more people need help in daily life. Service centers provide this help. The SPD wants to check whether job projects can help there too. Advice on housing, dementia and care should get enough money. Care advice should be offered in more neighborhoods.

The SPD wants to extend the municipal coverage of costs for prescribed contraceptives to additional low-income groups. In the party's view, family planning should not depend on how much money someone has.

Bremen pays for birth control for some people. So far this applies to people on welfare, for example. The SPD wants to include more people. These include students with state aid and people who get housing benefits.

The SPD wants to draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare Bremen for future crises. Protective equipment is to be kept in stock, vaccination infrastructure maintained, and a crisis team kept ready for rapid deployment.

The SPD wants to prepare Bremen for new pandemics. Masks and protective clothing should be kept in storage. There should still be staff and places for vaccination. A crisis team should be able to start quickly. A crisis team is a group that decides in an emergency.

The SPD wants enough rehab places and interdisciplinary outpatient clinics for people with long Covid. For children and adolescents, it plans to expand school psychology, creative therapy and physical activity programs, because the platform says they suffered especially during the pandemic.

Some people stay sick for a long time after Covid. This is called long Covid. The SPD wants enough rehab places and clinics for them. Children and teenagers should get more help at school. There should also be more programs for exercise.

The SPD wants reliable working hours, less overtime and higher wages in nursing care. The aim is to keep care workers in the profession or bring them back, since the platform sees sufficient staff as the key condition for good care.

The SPD wants better jobs in nursing care. Care workers should be able to go home on time. They should work less overtime. They should also earn more money. Then more people will stay in the job.

The SPD wants to attract more people to nursing training and reduce dropouts. Training for care aides and assistants is to be structured so that the path to becoming a registered nurse is open, with credit for prior training.

The SPD wants to train more people in nursing care. People who are about to quit training should get help. Care aides should be able to become nurses more easily. What they have already learned should count.

The SPD sees entry-level opportunities for refugees and immigrants as key to getting more nursing staff. It wants to offer language training and recognize foreign qualifications without red tape.

Nursing care lacks many workers. The SPD wants refugees and immigrants to work in care. They should get German classes for the job. Degrees from other countries should count more easily.

Beyond nursing, the SPD wants to support other health professions: midwives, medical assistants and therapists. It justifies this with the continuing need for staff in these fields.

The SPD also wants to support other health jobs. These include midwives and assistants in doctors' offices. They also include therapists. Doctors' offices should train more people.

The SPD wants to use state money to support training for so-called Pflege-Guides (care guides), who advise employees with relatives in need of care at their workplaces. It expects the federal government to cover nursing training costs from taxes so that out-of-pocket contributions fall.

Many people care for relatives and also have a job. Care guides advise them at work. The SPD wants more care guides to be trained. The state should give money for this. The federal government should pay for nursing training from taxes.

The SPD wants women and couples seeking an abortion to get information and fast, good care close to home. Hospital planning is to guarantee this.

Some women want to end a pregnancy. The SPD wants them to get good information. They should find help quickly and close to home. Hospital planning should take this into account.

The SPD wants to create more local health centers and health kiosks that bring together advice, prevention and support in the neighborhood. It argues that health risks differ in size by district and population group.

The SPD wants more health centers in the neighborhoods. People can get advice there about illness and care. The centers should be easy to reach. Schools should get more health workers.

The SPD wants to use incentives to bring more family doctors, pediatricians and psychotherapists to districts with too few practices. The state authority is to have a targeted say in how physician slots are filled.

Some neighborhoods lack family doctors and children's doctors. The SPD wants to attract young doctors there. For example, they could get help with rent. The state should have a say in where practices open. More practices should be barrier-free.

The SPD wants to push providers focused mainly on returns out of medical care. In the platform's view, financial investors are increasingly buying up practices and medical care centers and have little interest in care that covers the whole area.

Some companies buy doctors' offices to make a lot of money. The SPD wants to push this back. The cities should set up their own care centers. A register should show who owns the practices.

The SPD wants patient counseling that depends neither on health insurers nor on health care companies and is organized regionally. Counseling on dementia is also to be strengthened and expanded.

Patients sometimes need advice, for example after treatment mistakes. The SPD wants independent counseling. It should not depend on insurers or companies. There should also be more counseling about dementia.

The SPD calls on the federal government for a new approach to hospital financing and backs the federal government's reform plans. In the state budget, investment in hospitals is to rise every year, and surpluses are to stay in the hospital system.

The SPD wants hospitals to be paid in a different way. Doctors should decide based on what patients need, not on money. The state should put more money into hospitals every year. Profits should stay in the hospital.

The SPD wants to keep all sites of the municipal hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo) while establishing a division of labor with clear specializations among Bremen's hospitals. GeNo is to continue its restructuring and reduce its deficits.

The SPD wants to keep all sites of the city-owned hospitals. Each hospital should have its own focus areas. The hospitals should work together better. The city-owned hospitals should lose less money.

The SPD wants to build outpatient emergency care as cooperation on equal terms between hospitals and doctors in private practice. It is to be geared to the needs of the districts and regions in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

In emergencies, hospitals and doctors' offices should work closely together. Both should have an equal say. The help should fit the neighborhoods. First, there should be a careful check of where the problems are.

The SPD wants psychiatric care in Bremen to be organized more on an outpatient and regional basis. Binding community psychiatry networks with regional budgets are meant to coordinate services so that the support system is no longer fragmented.

The SPD wants to change mental health care. More help should take place outside the hospital. Help should be close to where people live. Providers in a district should work together in a fixed way. There should be enough money for this.

The SPD wants to do more to prevent addiction and to expand counseling. Addiction counseling centers are to get more staff, and self-help groups are to receive support.

The SPD wants to do more against addiction. There should be more prevention. Counseling centers should get more staff. Self-help groups should also get support.

The SPD wants low-threshold drug services to be easier to reach, including in the evening. Drug consumption rooms are to be equipped according to need.

The SPD wants better help for people who use drugs. The help should also be open in the evening. There are rooms where people can use drugs under supervision. These rooms should be well equipped.

The SPD wants a comprehensive reform of the public health service (ÖGD) and a new definition of its tasks. According to the program, budget cuts and unattractive jobs led to staff losses, so staff are to be recruited across all medical professions.

The SPD wants to strengthen the public health offices. The SPD says they lack staff. Too much was cut in the past. The offices should hire more experts. Working there should become more attractive.

The SPD wants the public health offices to inspect hygiene in medical practices, nursing homes, and hospitals more often. Prevention and health promotion in neighborhoods, schools, and daycare centers are to be strengthened, and a permanent vaccination infrastructure is to be built.

The health offices should take on more tasks. They should check hygiene in practices, care homes, and hospitals more often. Neighborhoods, schools, and daycare centers should have more health workers. There should be permanent places to get vaccinated.

The SPD wants to secure staffing for health reporting (GBE) and expand it so that health policy rests on evidence. The public health service is also to get better technical and digital equipment.

The SPD wants to collect more data on the health of people in Bremen. There should be enough staff for this. Politicians should decide based on this data. The health offices should get better digital technology.

The SPD wants to organize care so that people can grow old in familiar surroundings. All care services are to focus on their neighborhood, cooperate on a binding basis, and close gaps; the start will be pilot projects in selected neighborhoods.

Many people want to stay at home when they are old. So the SPD wants to organize care in each neighborhood. Providers there should work together in a fixed way. First there will be trials in some neighborhoods. Later this should apply in all of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The Bremen SPD calls for a federal reform of long-term care. Statutory and private care insurance are to be merged into a single Bürgerversicherung (citizens' insurance), benefits are to rise, and the co-payments of people in need of care are to be capped.

The SPD wants to change care insurance across Germany. There should be just one insurance for everyone. This is called citizens' insurance. The state should add more money. People who need care should pay less themselves.

The SPD wants to expand the Pflegestützpunkte (care support centers) so that counseling is available right in the district. People in need of care should also be able to have a personal care adviser who draws up an individual care plan.

The SPD wants more advice on care in the districts. The care support centers should offer consultation hours there. People who need care should be able to have a personal adviser. This person makes a plan for their help.

The SPD wants to expand care services in Bremen, especially day, night, short-term, and respite care that support care at home. Regular care reporting is to track demand, and higher subsidies for investment costs are to encourage new services.

The SPD says Bremen has too few care services. There should be more day care and short-term care. Shared care apartments should also get support. The state should give money for new places. Regular reports should show what is needed.

The SPD wants to create more training places for registered nurses and care assistants to address staff shortages. At the federal level, Bremen is to push for collective bargaining coverage in the care sector.

Care lacks staff. So the SPD wants to create more training places. Fewer people should drop out of training. Care workers should be paid under collective agreements everywhere. Bremen wants to push for this at the federal level.

The SPD wants to ease the burden on nursing home residents by having the state of Bremen cover investment costs, for example through a needs-based Pflegewohngeld (care housing allowance). The state is also to monitor investment costs more closely.

People in nursing homes also pay for the building. These are called investment costs. The SPD wants the state of Bremen to cover these costs. One way is a care housing allowance for people with little money. The state should also check these costs more closely.

The SPD wants federal and EU rules to limit the activity of profit-oriented national care providers, especially private equity firms. In Bremen, the housing and care supervisory authority is to get more staff, and protection standards are to be checked more strictly.

Some large companies want to make high profits with nursing homes. The SPD says problems are more common there. It wants new rules for these companies. The authority that supervises homes should get more staff. It should check the homes more strictly.

The SPD wants to make Bremen a model region for the digital health industry. To that end, research, industry and health care providers are to work together more closely, and companies in the sector are to be attracted to the state.

The SPD wants a stronger health industry in Bremen. Bremen should be a model for digital medicine. Researchers and companies should work together more closely. New health companies should move to Bremen.

The SPD wants to sharply limit profit-seeking in health care and nursing care and will push for this at the federal level. In Bremen and Bremerhaven, municipal and nonprofit facilities are to be strengthened. The platform holds that health and care are public services, not commodities.

The SPD wants less profit-seeking in health care and nursing care. It will push for this at the national level. In Bremen it wants to strengthen city-run facilities. Nonprofit facilities should also be strengthened. Nonprofit means they do not work to make a profit.

The SPD calls for a climate plan for the state of Bremen and its two cities that links health and climate policy. Hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities are to draw up their own climate plans and use fewer resources. The platform argues that climate change makes people sick.

The SPD wants a climate plan for the state of Bremen. Hospitals and nursing homes should make their own climate plans. They should use less energy and material. The SPD says climate change makes people sick.

The SPD wants a heat action plan for the state of Bremen. It is to include a warning system for heat events and to protect and care for especially vulnerable people.

The SPD wants a heat plan for Bremen. The plan should warn people about extreme heat. It should protect people who are most at risk. These are old or sick people, for example.

The SPD calls for consistently granting tolerated-stay permits for training and for giving young people a permanent residence title once they pass their interim exam. This is meant to give them security. Residence status should not stand in the way of training.

Some young people from abroad may only stay for their training. The SPD wants to give them more security. If they pass the mid-term exam, they should be allowed to stay for good. Their residence status should not stop them from training.

The SPD encourages people who meet the requirements to become citizens. At the federal level it wants to back the planned simplification of naturalization for long-term residents, and in Bremen it wants applications processed promptly.

Many people have lived in Bremen for a long time but have no German passport. The SPD wants it to be easier for them to become German. Bremen should keep promoting this. The offices should handle applications quickly.

The SPD wants differences in residence status to restrict access to language courses, training, work and choice of housing less than they do now. The opportunities given to refugees from Ukraine should also be open to other refugees.

Refugees from Ukraine may work and take courses quickly. Other refugees often face stricter rules. The SPD wants all refugees to get these opportunities. Nobody should live for many years with only a temporary permission to stay.

The SPD commits to granting protection and asylum to people who are fleeing. Refugees should quickly get access to school, daycare, language courses and work, and be able to move from shared shelters into their own homes.

The SPD wants to protect people who are fleeing. Children should go to daycare and school quickly. Adults should learn German and find work. Refugees should be able to move from shared shelters into their own homes.

Everyone with an immigration background in Bremen and Bremerhaven should have the chance to learn German in a course. The SPD therefore wants to continue the municipal language courses alongside those offered by the federal government.

All immigrants should be able to learn German. The federal government offers German courses. Bremen offers its own courses too. The SPD wants to keep these courses. There should also be special courses for women.

The SPD wants to keep advising, connecting and strengthening migrant organizations. It also backs the recognition of Islamic religious communities as corporations under public law.

Bremen has many associations run by immigrants. The SPD wants to keep advising and supporting them. Islamic communities want a special legal recognition. The churches already have it. The SPD supports this wish.

Citing the need for skilled workers, the SPD wants to make greater use of immigration into the labor market. Foreign professional qualifications are to be recognized more simply and quickly, and the migration office is to get more staff.

Bremen lacks skilled workers. So the SPD wants more people to immigrate for work. Job qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster. The offices in charge should get more staff.

The SPD wants to launch a state program for equality between women and men in the labor market. It points to a pay gap of almost 20 percent and to many women working part-time and in mini-jobs. In its view, equality also makes economic sense as a way to close the skilled-labor gap.

Women often earn less than men. Many women work part-time or in mini-jobs. The SPD wants to change that. It wants to start a program for equal chances at work. More women should also become managers.

The SPD wants to fund projects that open a path into the general apprenticeship market for young people with disabilities. It notes that about 90 percent of the school leavers concerned currently end up working in sheltered workshops.

Many young people with disabilities later work in a special workshop. The SPD wants to open another path. They should be able to train at a regular company. The SPD wants to fund projects for this.

The SPD wants apartments to be allocated without discrimination. The state anti-discrimination office is also to handle suspected cases on the housing market and help those affected gather evidence.

No one should be treated unfairly when looking for a home. The SPD wants a contact point for this. People affected can turn to it. The office helps them collect evidence. The city's housing companies should be checked.

The SPD wants a balanced gender ratio among teaching staff. It plans to specifically reach out to men, especially men with an immigrant background, for jobs in schools and daycare centers.

Few men work in schools and daycare centers. The SPD wants more men in these jobs. It is thinking especially of men from immigrant families. It plans an ad campaign for this.

The SPD wants to take action against racism, antisemitism, ableism and sexism in schools. To this end, information and prevention work is to be expanded.

The SPD wants no exclusion at schools. Nobody should be treated badly because of origin, religion, disability or gender. Schools should teach more about this. Teachers get training on it.

The SPD wants to strengthen protection against discrimination through an active anti-discrimination policy. Racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hostility are to be fought at both the structural and the individual level.

Some people are treated worse because of where they come from or their religion. The SPD wants to protect them better. It wants to act against hatred of Jews and Muslims. It works with religious communities to do this.

The SPD supports a diversity strategy for all administrations and companies in which Bremen holds a stake. More people with an immigration background should work there, including in leadership roles.

Few people from immigrant families work in public offices. The SPD wants to change that. More of them should work there. They should also be able to become managers. Staff in daycare centers and schools should get training on this.

The SPD wants to advance equal and self-determined participation for people with disabilities. The focus is on the broadest possible accessibility of buildings, digital services and information.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers. This applies to buildings and to the internet. Information should be understandable for everyone. People with disabilities should have a say.

The SPD wants the construction of accessible housing to take greater account of the needs of people with different kinds of disabilities. In addition, all counseling centers are to make their services inclusive.

The SPD wants more homes without barriers. The homes should suit different disabilities. Counseling centers should also work for everyone. That includes people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to ensure full participation for migrants and refugees with disabilities and to give special support to queer people with disabilities. The state anti-discrimination office is also to be open to people with disabilities.

Some people with disabilities face extra hardship. These include refugees and queer people. The SPD wants to give them special help. The state office against discrimination should also help people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to identify and remove obstacles to real gender equality. It sees gender policy as a task that affects every area of government action.

Women, men and other genders should have equal chances. That is not yet true everywhere. The SPD wants to find and remove the obstacles. It wants to pay attention to this in every policy area.

The SPD wants to attract more women to technical and scientific occupations while also raising the standing of jobs mostly held by women. Career guidance in schools is to start early and avoid gender stereotypes.

The SPD wants more women in tech jobs. Schools should talk about careers early. They should not use clichés about women and men. Jobs done mostly by women should get more recognition.

The SPD wants to implement Bremen's state strategy for gender equity in working life and equal pay during the coming term. Business development funding is to be made gender-equitable, with the "gender traffic light" serving as the first step toward comprehensive gender budgeting.

Bremen has a plan for equal chances for women at work. The SPD wants to carry out this plan. Public money for businesses should also help women. The state should check this when it hands out money. This is called gender budgeting.

The SPD wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in Bremen and strengthen the protection system for women and girls affected by violence. This includes better funding for women's shelters, a legal right to free admission, and measures against femicide.

The SPD wants to protect women and girls better from violence. Women's shelters should get more money. Every woman in need should get a free place. There should be a help center open day and night. Killings of women should be prosecuted better.

The SPD wants to protect LGBTQIA+ people in Bremen more strongly against hate and violence and to fund services for them. Plans include queer youth programs, new meeting places, more contact officers in the police and education sector, and an updated state action plan.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. Queer people include lesbian, gay and trans people. There should be more meeting places and youth groups. The police should have more contact persons for queer people. Older queer people should also be able to live well.

The SPD supports several federal government plans on queer rights. These include a self-determination law to replace the Transsexuals Act, a new law of parentage, and a ban on discrimination based on sexual identity in the Basic Law.

The SPD supports national plans for queer people. The old Transsexuals Act should go. A self-determination law should replace it. Same-sex married couples should have equal rights, also in adoption. The constitution should ban discrimination based on sexual identity.

The SPD wants health care and nursing to take greater account of differences by gender and background. To that end, training is to be adapted, gender medicine considered, and women included more in research.

Women and men get sick in different ways. A person's background also matters. The SPD wants doctors and care workers to learn this. Research should pay more attention to women. Schools and colleges should offer free period products.

The SPD wants to examine women's advisory councils on the Berlin model and launch them as pilot projects in selected districts. Women are to take part on equal terms in district councils and citizen participation and receive extra support for this. The Landesfrauenrat (state women's council) is to receive permanent institutional funding.

The SPD wants to test women's councils in some districts. Women should have an equal say in local politics. There should be support for this, such as child care in the evening. The state women's council should get permanent funding.

The SPD wants Bremen to become climate neutral by 2038 and to invest in transforming the economy to get there. Money is to go into green steel, climate-friendly aviation, and the hydrogen economy. The program argues that the economic transformation can only succeed with substantial investment.

The SPD wants Bremen to be climate neutral by 2038. Climate neutral means the state no longer harms the climate. The SPD wants to spend a lot of money on this. The money is for clean steel, hydrogen, and the ports.

The SPD wants Bremen's economy to run entirely on renewable energy, including green hydrogen, by 2039. Fossil gas, oil and coal are to be replaced in industry. The program presents this shift as a precondition for a sustainable future rather than a burden.

The SPD wants to move away from gas, oil and coal. By 2039 the economy should use only clean energy. That includes green hydrogen. This is a gas made with clean electricity. The SPD says this change secures the future.

The SPD wants to expand green hydrogen production in Bremen and connect the state to the northern German pipeline network. Bremerhaven is to become a test and competence region for mobile hydrogen applications. The party will look into funding innovative pilot plants.

The SPD wants to make more green hydrogen in Bremen. This is a gas made with clean electricity. Bremen should be linked to hydrogen pipelines in the north. In Bremerhaven, companies and researchers should test new technology. The SPD will check whether the state funds test plants.

The SPD wants to generate more wind and solar power in the state of Bremen, using land in business parks, the ports and at the airport. The expansion of offshore wind is meant to create jobs in Bremerhaven. The reason given is sharply rising demand for green electricity and hydrogen.

The SPD wants more electricity from wind and sun. New wind turbines should be built. Old turbines should be replaced with stronger ones. Solar panels should go in ports, business parks and at the airport. In Bremerhaven, wind power at sea should bring new jobs.

The SPD wants commercial areas to be built more densely and designed to be ecological and climate-neutral. Solar panels or green roofs are to become standard, and wind turbines should also stand in commercial areas. Bremen's distance and noise rules for wind power are to be revised.

Commercial areas should be built more densely. Roofs should have solar panels or plants. Wind turbines should stand there too. The SPD wants to change the rules on distance and noise.

The SPD wants to develop the ports so that hydrogen can be imported and transported onward there. In Bremerhaven, commercial land south of the fishing port, including the carbon-neutral LuneDelta area, is meant to attract green-economy companies. As much value creation as possible from the renewable energy build-out should stay in the area.

The SPD wants to get the ports ready for hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas that provides energy. It should come into the country through the ports. Green companies should settle in Bremerhaven.

The SPD wants to further expand shore-side electricity for ships so that far fewer emissions arise at the berths. It pursues the goal of carbon-neutral port operations and shipping without fossil fuels.

Ships in the port should get electricity from land. Then their engines do not have to run. That means less exhaust. The port should no longer harm the climate.

The SPD wants to expand research on sustainability and climate change in Bremen and strengthen cooperation among institutions. At the same time, university buildings are to be renovated to cut greenhouse gases and save energy.

The SPD wants more research on climate and sustainability. Universities and institutes should work together more. University buildings should be renovated. Then they use less energy. The campus areas should also get more plants.

The SPD wants to advance energy retrofits of existing buildings and make heat pumps, solar panels and insulation easier. Buildings in the worst energy condition are to get additional funding where needed.

Many old houses use too much energy. The SPD wants to fund fixing them. The worst houses come first. In return, landlords may not raise the rent. Older homeowners get special loans.

The SPD wants to require solar panels on new buildings and support this with loans. Municipal heat plans for every neighborhood in Bremen and Bremerhaven are to set the timeline for switching to renewable heating.

New buildings should have to get solar panels. There will be cheap loans for this. The cities should plan how to heat without oil and gas. More buildings should get district heating. Renters should find it easier to use power from their own roof.

The SPD wants to advance timber construction with more pilot projects and make ecological building simpler and cheaper. Public builders are to lead by example.

The SPD wants more buildings made of wood. Wood grows back and stores CO2. There should be new showcase projects for this. When the city builds, it should look after the environment. The federal government should also give more money for energy-saving building.

The SPD wants to meet the CO2 reduction targets set by Bremen's Klima-Enquete (climate inquiry commission) and take the necessary steps quickly in the next legislative term. The burdens are to be shared fairly, and money and staff are to go where they cut the most CO2.

A commission set climate goals for Bremen. The SPD wants to reach these goals. People with more money should carry more of the cost. Money should go where it cuts the most CO2.

The SPD wants to cut the energy demand of residential and commercial buildings and switch them to renewable energy. To do so, heat planning for Bremen and Bremerhaven is to be pushed forward and energy retrofits sped up.

Buildings should use less energy. The SPD wants more heating networks and heat pumps. Old buildings should be renovated faster. Owners should get help paying for this.

The SPD wants to renovate schools, daycare centers and other public buildings so that their energy use becomes CO2-free. Because regular budgets are not enough, separate financing schemes compatible with the debt brake are to be developed.

Bremen owns many schools and daycare centers. These buildings should no longer cause CO2. That costs billions. The normal budget is not enough. So the SPD wants to find new ways to pay for it.

The SPD wants to develop both cities into "Circular Cities" that use resources sparingly and keep them in circulation. Waste reports, pilot projects and better collection of organic waste are meant to contribute.

The SPD wants less trash. Things should be repaired and reused more often. The cities should report regularly on what happens to the trash. Large apartment buildings should also get organic waste bins.

The SPD wants to preserve and expand green and water areas in both cities, unseal paved land and protect trees better. This is meant to serve climate protection, adaptation to heat and heavy rain, and biodiversity, and to secure recreation areas for everyone.

The SPD wants more green space in the city. Trees should be better protected. Paved areas should be opened up so rain can soak in. Roofs and walls should get plants. All neighborhoods should have green space equally.

The SPD wants to protect the peatlands in the state of Bremen because they store CO2 and matter for nature and species protection. It wants to examine which areas can be rewetted and to involve farmers from the start.

Peatlands store a lot of CO2. The SPD wants to protect Bremen's peatlands. It wants to check where dried peatlands can be made wet again. Farmers should have a say from the start.

The SPD wants to fight litter in public spaces with education, more checks and fines. The Ordnungsdienst (municipal enforcement service) is to grow in all districts, and cameras are to be used for limited periods at individual dumping hotspots.

Some streets in Bremen have a lot of trash. The SPD wants to change that. It wants to inform people and check more often. People who dump trash illegally should pay a fine. Cameras will hang in some places for a while. There will also be more trash cans and public toilets.

The SPD wants to expand the Bremen port railway so that even more freight moves to and from the ports by rail. It plans to press the federal government for investment in the seaports' hinterland connections.

The SPD wants to expand the railway in the port. Then more containers go by train instead of by truck. The federal government should pay for better links to the rest of the country.

The SPD wants to secure Bremen Airport financially through a restructuring plan and shift it to climate-neutral operations through investment. It regards the airport as important for the business location and the aerospace industry.

The SPD wants to keep Bremen Airport. A plan should make it financially stable. Its operations should no longer harm the climate. The workers should be part of this process.

The SPD wants to reorganize public transit in downtown Bremen and move the tram from Obernstraße to Martinistraße. In its view, the tram holds back the development of Obernstraße and the market square. A feasibility study is to provide the basis for the decision.

A tram runs through Obernstraße in Bremen. The SPD wants to move it to Martinistraße. Then a large walking zone can be created. First, a study checks whether this works. After that, the SPD wants to decide.

The SPD wants downtown Bremen to have as few cars as possible and to be planned from the pedestrian's point of view. The center is to stay reachable by every mode of transport, but not every mode should go into the core of the old town. Parking at the edge, shuttles, bike parking and better walking routes are meant to make this work.

Fewer cars should drive in downtown Bremen. Cars park at the edge of the city center. From there, small buses called shuttles take people further. There should be more parking for bikes. Walking routes should become nicer.

The SPD wants no one in Bremen to live more than 500 meters from a transit stop. It also plans on-demand services on the outskirts, more express buses to business parks and a mobility card covering different modes of transport.

The SPD wants more stops for buses and trams. No one should have to walk more than 500 meters. On the edge of the city, there should be rides on request. Fast buses should go to workplaces. One card should work for buses, parking garages, rental bikes and car sharing.

The SPD wants to better coordinate public transit, bike sharing, e-scooters, bike parking and car parking. It plans to expand the Mobi.Punkte (mobility hubs) and create uniform digital payment options so that switching between modes becomes easier.

The SPD wants to connect buses, trams, shared bikes and e-scooters better. There should be more Mobi.Punkte. These are places with several kinds of transport. People should pay digitally in the same way everywhere.

The SPD wants to introduce fare-free local public transit for all Bremen residents through the "Bremen-Ticket." It is to be funded through a solidarity-based model in which everyone takes part. The ticket is to be combined with an expansion of service.

The SPD wants to introduce the Bremen-Ticket. People in Bremen would then need no ticket for buses and trams. Everyone would pay for it together. The cost should be affordable for all. There should also be more buses and trams.

The SPD wants to expand local transit service substantially. At major stops, a vehicle is to arrive at least every 7.5 minutes during regular hours, and night lines are to run continuously seven days a week. New tram routes and flexible services such as on-demand buses are also planned.

The SPD wants more buses and trams in Bremen. At major stops, a bus or tram should come every 7.5 minutes. Night lines should run every day. The edges of the city should get more service, such as on-demand buses.

The SPD wants to strengthen regional rail with more frequent trains so that a quarter of commuters switch from car to train by 2030. To that end it calls for additional tracks, better stations and reliable federal funding. Fare zone 101 is to be abolished.

The SPD wants more local trains. By 2030, one in four commuters should switch from car to train. New tracks should be built for this. Trips to and from Bremerhaven should get cheaper. The federal government should pay for the expansion.

The SPD supports amending the Straßenverkehrsordnung (German road traffic regulations) so that a 30 km/h limit can be introduced across residential neighborhoods. It justifies this with greater road safety, less noise and a better quality of life.

The SPD wants to make a 30 km/h limit possible everywhere in residential areas. A federal law must be changed for that. The SPD supports this change. The limit should make streets safer and quieter.

The SPD wants to expand car sharing across Bremen, especially in districts far from the city center. The aim is to reduce private motorized traffic in the long run. Funding schemes for start-up financing are to be examined.

The SPD wants more car sharing across Bremen. Car sharing means many people share cars. Areas far from the city center should get more offers. The SPD will check whether the city gives start-up money.

The SPD wants to install 10,000 publicly accessible charging points for electric cars in the state of Bremen by 2030. This is to be based on a statewide "Strategie Ladeinfrastruktur" (charging infrastructure strategy). Charging stations are to be within a ten-minute walk in every neighborhood.

The SPD wants 10,000 charging points for electric cars in Bremen and Bremerhaven by 2030. Everyone should be able to use them. A charging station should be at most a 10-minute walk away. There should be a plan for the whole state.

The SPD wants the public sector to lead on electric car charging. Public parking lots with 25 or more spaces are to get charging infrastructure by 2025. By 2030, parking garages and business parks are also to be largely supplied with charging points.

The SPD wants charging points at parking lots of public offices and facilities. This applies to lots with 25 or more spaces. It should be done by 2025. People should also be able to charge electric cars at work in business parks.

The SPD wants to push back parking on sidewalks without abruptly removing a very large number of parking options. To do so, new parking rules are to be drawn up for individual neighborhoods, supplemented by neighborhood garages. Parked vehicles are to be checked more closely in all districts.

The SPD wants fewer cars parked on sidewalks. But many parking spaces should not disappear all at once. Each neighborhood should get its own parking plan. There should be more neighborhood garages. The SPD wants to check illegal parking more often.

The SPD wants to close the autobahn ring around Bremen soon with the final section of the A 281, the Weser crossing. The Cherbourger Straße in Bremerhaven is also to be completed. The program regards both projects as central to the two cities as business locations.

The SPD wants to finish the A 281 autobahn. Then there will be a ring around Bremen. One section under the Weser river is still missing. The Cherbourger Straße in Bremerhaven should also be finished. The SPD says this matters for the economy.

The SPD wants to put more money into repairing and expanding sidewalks and bike paths. Plans include premium bike routes to outer districts, faster construction of bicycle bridges over the Weser and barrier-free paths. E-scooters are to be ridden and parked only in designated zones.

The SPD wants to spend more money on sidewalks and bike paths. Broken paths should be repaired. There should be new fast bike routes into the city center. Pedestrians should wait less at traffic lights. E-scooters may only be used and parked in certain areas.

The SPD wants to further reduce the number of traffic accidents. It plans more frequent speed and following-distance checks, stronger separation of traffic modes and better lighting. In residential areas, temporary play streets are to be set up more often.

The SPD wants fewer people to be hurt in traffic. Police should check speed and distance more often. Cyclists should get protected lanes. Streets should be well lit. Residential areas should more often get play streets for a limited time.

The SPD wants to use the Weser river as a transport route and create regular ferry connections between several districts. The ferries are to be usable at the normal local transit fare. The program expects this to relieve roads and bridges and to benefit tourism.

The SPD wants ferries on the Weser river as a means of transport. The ferries should run regularly between several districts. People should use them with the normal bus and tram ticket. This should take pressure off roads and bridges.

The SPD wants to cut transport CO2 emissions mainly in commuting and car trips to work. The shift to buses, trains and bikes is to be planned starting from commercial zones and large employers, and an adequate charging network for electric cars is to be built quickly.

Many people drive to work. That causes a lot of CO2. The SPD wants more buses, trains and bike paths to workplaces. It also wants more charging stations for electric cars soon.

The SPD wants to help companies find and train workers with IT skills. Education capacity is to grow, and universities are to work more closely with the dual vocational training system. The program sees a growing shortage of such workers as digitalization advances.

Many companies need people who know about computers. There are too few of them. The SPD wants more places for training and further education. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The SPD wants to make Bremen a model region for the 6G mobile standard and keep it at the forefront of digital network expansion. The state's AI strategy is meant to move research results into business more quickly. Public administration is also to work more digitally, for example with building applications.

Bremen should have very good internet and mobile networks. The SPD wants to test the new 6G technology early in Bremen. Companies should be able to use artificial intelligence from research. Public offices should work digitally. People should be able to file building applications fully online.

The SPD wants to connect every commercial area in Bremen to the broadband network. It also wants comprehensive infrastructure for the 5G and 6G mobile standards to be built as quickly as possible.

The SPD wants fast internet in all commercial areas in Bremen. The mobile network should also get better. For this, the 5G and 6G networks should be expanded.

The SPD wants to establish Bremen as a leading location for artificial intelligence. It plans to fund top-level research and push its use in business.

The SPD wants Bremen to be strong in artificial intelligence. This is called AI for short. AI means computer programs that learn by themselves. Research on AI should get money. Companies should use the results.

The SPD wants to expand legally binding digital communication between the courts and the public and enable video calls at court filing offices. Justice staff are to receive mobile devices and be able to work from home.

The justice system should become more digital. People should be able to write to courts online in a secure way. Some offices should offer video calls. Staff should also be able to work from home.

The SPD wants to continue existing projects for older people's digital participation and consolidate them into one permanent system. A focus is on disadvantaged neighborhoods, where neighborhood helpers are also to work as digital guides.

Many older people use the internet. Others are not yet familiar with it. The SPD wants to help them. Advice and laptop loans should continue. In poorer neighborhoods, local helpers should explain the internet.

The SPD wants to make digital sovereignty the guiding principle of the administration, relying on open source and open standards. Paper files are to end, and encryption and IT security are to become the default.

The administration should depend less on outside companies for computers and programs. The SPD wants to use open software for this. That is software whose code anyone can look at. Paper files should end. Messages should always be securely encrypted.

The SPD wants to provide administrative services digitally, based on secure electronic identities. Information should be collected only once, and some services should arrive without any application.

People should be able to deal with public offices online. They can use the online ID card for that. They should give each piece of information only once. Some services should come without an application. Citizens and companies should get a simple account.

The SPD wants to raise the staffing targets for the police to 3,100 full-time positions in Bremen and 580 in Bremerhaven. The public order service is to have 120 full-time positions. The program argues that feeling safe is part of living in a good neighborhood.

The SPD wants more police officers. Bremen should have 3,100 full-time positions. Bremerhaven should have 580. The public order service should get 120 positions. It should act against litter and run-down buildings.

Together with the Beiräte (district councils), the SPD wants to identify places where people feel unsafe and upgrade them. Awareness teams at busy locations are to be deployed and funded permanently.

In some places in the city, people feel afraid. The SPD wants to find these places and make them nicer. Awareness teams should help at busy places. These are trained people who watch out and support others. The SPD wants to pay for these teams permanently.

The SPD wants to respond to the drug scene around Bremen's main station with more enforcement officers, more social and medical services and more frequent cleaning. To prevent an uncontrolled shift into neighboring areas, it supports creating a designated tolerated location (Akzeptanzort).

There is a drug scene at Bremen's main station. The SPD says people with addiction need help. There will be more help and more doctors. But there will also be more enforcement officers. The scene should get its own place where it is tolerated.

The SPD wants to expand the Institute for Police and Security Research with additional funding and set up an innovation center for security agencies. The Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung (college of public administration) is to be placed under the interior department and made more capable.

The SPD wants more research on security. A research institute for the police should get more money. A new center should bring new technology to the police quickly. The college that trains police officers should belong to the interior department.

The SPD wants more uniformed officers on the street, including 120 secured positions for neighborhood contact officers in the medium term. Municipal inspections are to be concentrated at the Ordnungsamt (public order office), and the enforcement service is to get bodycams.

The SPD wants more police on the street. There should be 120 jobs for neighborhood contact officers. The public order office should handle many inspections on its own. The enforcement service should wear bodycams. These are small cameras on clothing. The SPD does not tolerate violence against emergency workers.

The SPD wants to make tasers available to all operational police units in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It also plans to amend the police law to broaden officers' powers of intervention. The platform justifies this with rising violence against emergency personnel.

The SPD wants more tasers for the police. A taser is a gun that gives electric shocks. All officers on duty should be able to use one. The police should also get more powers. The SPD says attacks on officers are increasing.

The SPD wants to implement the new fire protection requirements plan and invest in equipment and vehicles for the fire departments. The volunteer fire departments are to be reorganized under a structural plan and get up-to-date stations in every district.

The SPD wants to equip the fire service better. There should be new vehicles and new technology. Volunteer fire departments should also get modern buildings. Money for this should be provided every year.

The SPD wants to realign disaster protection in the state of Bremen and equip it better. It cites the pandemic, the war against Ukraine and so-called hybrid threats as reasons. The rescue service is to be organized as a special fund.

The SPD wants better protection in disasters. There should be more sirens in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Helpers should get good training. The rescue service should be reorganized. The SPD gives the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as reasons.

The SPD stands by the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution (domestic intelligence agency) and wants to equip it adequately. The platform sees right-wing extremism as the greatest danger to democracy. Extremism of every kind is to be met with firmness and with prevention.

The SPD wants to keep and strengthen the domestic intelligence agency. This agency watches enemies of democracy. The SPD sees right-wing extremists as the biggest danger. It wants to act firmly against all extremists. There should also be help for people to leave extremism.

The SPD wants to set up a separate cybercrime division within the State Criminal Police Office and expand cyber defense with additional positions. Police officers are also to be visibly present on social networks.

The SPD wants to do more against crime on the internet. The criminal police should get its own unit for this. Officers should also be reachable online. People should be able to report crimes more easily online or by phone.

The SPD wants to secure the ports better against drug trafficking and continue investigations into organized crime, including clan crime. One focus is on confiscating illegally acquired assets, including real estate and luxury goods.

The SPD wants to make the ports safer. Drugs should not come into the country through the ports. The police should keep investigating criminal gangs. The state should take money and houses away from criminals.

The SPD wants to act against offers that foster addiction and reorganize gambling supervision. It plans advertising bans for sports betting and stricter rules for gambling halls and their locations.

The SPD wants stricter rules for gambling. Ads for sports betting should be banned. Gambling halls should face tougher rules. The state should fight illegal gambling better. This is meant to keep people from becoming addicted.

The SPD wants to use the federal government's announced legalization of cannabis to review procedures at the police, prosecutors and courts, and to step up prevention of drug abuse. It calls for higher fines for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The federal government wants to allow cannabis. The SPD then wants to do more against drug abuse. People who drive drunk or on drugs should pay higher fines. People who do it repeatedly should lose their license.

The SPD wants crime victims to get help quickly and without red tape and will keep funding victim support organizations. It wants to continue the fight against sexual violence toward children and young people with more prevention and better investigative technology.

The SPD wants to help crime victims better. Support groups should keep getting money. There should be more advice on compensation. The police should do more against sexual violence toward children. They will get modern software for this.

The SPD wants to continue the complete renovation of Bremen's prison (JVA), under way since 2007. According to the platform, this is the only way to improve the condition of the buildings for inmates and staff and to secure a prison system geared toward rehabilitation.

The SPD wants to keep renovating the prison in Bremen. The buildings are very old. They date from 1874. The work will take about ten more years. The prison should also produce its own power from sun and wind.

The SPD wants to make a staffing level of 260 in the general prison service binding and train recruits to reach it. It also wants to bring prison officers' civil-service status closer to that of police, firefighters and customs. The platform cites rising inmate numbers and the goal of rehabilitation.

The SPD wants more staff in the prison. 260 people should work in the prison service. The SPD wants to train new people for this. The job should also get more recognition. The SPD says there are more inmates and many have mental health problems.

The SPD wants to keep literacy and German courses for prisoners and give them access to digital media in the future. It points to the legal mandate to prepare inmates for a life without crime.

Prisoners should be able to learn in prison. Courses in reading, writing and German should continue. Prisoners should also be able to use the internet. This should help them later in life outside.

The SPD wants to avoid imprisonment for unpaid fines as far as possible. At the federal level, it wants riding without a ticket to be neither a crime nor an administrative offense. In the platform's view, this kind of detention mostly hits people without means, has no effect and causes high costs.

Some people cannot pay a fine. Then they have to go to prison. The SPD wants to prevent that where possible. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. An app should remind people of appointments and payments.

The SPD wants to actively use the cross-departmental "Aktionsplan Hauptbahnhof" (central station action plan) so that the station, in its view, again becomes a good place for everyone. Spaces near the station are to be created for the groups that gather there.

Many groups meet at the central station. Some people feel disturbed there. The SPD wants to weigh everyone's interests. It uses the central station action plan for that. Nearby there should be places where people can stay.

The SPD wants to involve people in Bremen and Bremerhaven in the medium-term strategic direction of the police. They should be able to say what they expect of the police. At the same time, the aim is to build more understanding for security work.

People in Bremen should have a say about the police. They should say what they expect of the police. The SPD wants to set up a process for this. District councils and citizens' forums should work together on it.

The SPD wants to base the justice system's staffing plans on the nationwide calculation system PEBB§Y and quickly hire the missing staff at the public prosecutor's office and the ordinary courts. More legal traineeship places are to be created for young lawyers.

The SPD wants more staff for courts and prosecutors. A calculation system shows how many people are missing. The SPD wants to plan jobs based on it. There should be more training places for young lawyers. The prosecutor's office in Bremerhaven should become stronger.

The SPD wants to gradually eliminate understaffing at the civil courts, especially the local courts (Amtsgerichte). To do so, more court personnel are to be trained. The goal is accessible and timely access to justice.

Bremen's civil courts have too few staff. This is especially true for the local courts. The SPD wants to change this step by step. Bremen should train more court workers.

The SPD wants to set up a central office where people involved in legal proceedings can ask about the status of their case. It also wants to examine whether victim support can be strengthened through cooperation with Lower Saxony.

The SPD wants a central help desk at the justice system. People can ask there about their case. For example: How far along is the investigation? The SPD also wants to review help for crime victims.

The SPD stands by its goal of a parity law that is compatible with the constitution. It is meant to ensure gender equity in all bodies under public law.

The SPD wants a parity law. Parity means women and men are equally represented. This should apply to all public bodies. The law must fit the constitution.

The SPD wants to support the Beiräte (district councils) and Ortsämter (district offices) and relieve them of administrative work. The law governing the district councils is to be reviewed continuously and adjusted in the councils' favor where needed. A digital committee management system is meant to make the volunteer work easier.

Beiräte are elected councils for the districts of Bremen. The SPD wants to strengthen these councils and the district offices. They should have less paperwork. They should get digital tools. Meetings by video should stay possible.

The SPD wants to expand citizen participation in Bremen. The public list of the Senate's projects is to become more informative, and citizens' forums with randomly selected members are to be tested further. The party wants to pay particular attention to making sure all groups in society can take part.

The SPD wants citizens to have more say. A list shows the plans of the Senate, Bremen's government. This list should get better. The SPD wants to keep testing citizens' forums. Randomly chosen people take part in them.

The SPD wants to set up a youth council or a comparable youth forum in every district and support it with full-time staff. Certain bills and government actions are to be checked in the future for their effects on young people. The platform refers to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The SPD wants youth councils in all districts. Young people can help decide things there. Paid staff should help them. New laws should be checked: What do they mean for young people?

The SPD wants to keep supporting youth associations in the state of Bremen and substantially increase their funding, also to offset inflation. The volunteer card (Ehrenamtscard) is to become more attractive for young people through additional discounts. In the party's view, the associations make an important contribution to democratic education.

The SPD wants to give youth associations more money. The money should also make up for higher prices. Young volunteers should get more discounts. The SPD says youth associations are important for democracy.

The SPD wants to make it easier for volunteer initiatives and self-help groups to get funding. Volunteering should become more visible, and groups that rarely volunteer today should find easier ways in.

Many people help for free in clubs and groups. The SPD wants to make this easier for them. Applying for money should be simpler. Volunteers should get more advice.

The SPD rejects a mandatory year of service for everyone. In its view, voluntary service only keeps its value if it stays voluntary. Counseling for young volunteers is to continue.

Some people want a required year of service for all young people. The SPD is against this. Service should stay voluntary. Young volunteers should keep getting advice and support.

The SPD wants public offices to handle requests quickly and competently and aims for an online citizen account modeled on Denmark's. The administration is to work more in projects and see itself as a service provider.

Public offices should handle requests faster. The SPD wants many more services online. There should also be mobile services in the neighborhoods. People who must go to an office should get an appointment quickly. The administration should see itself as a service for everyone.

The SPD wants Bremen to engage more in Europe and win more of the funding awarded directly by the European Commission. It plans a service office, a pool of positions in Brussels and closer exchange between the Senate and European bodies.

Bremen should get more money from EU funding programs. A new service office should help government departments with applications. More staff should work in Brussels for a while. The Senate should talk about Europe more often.

The SPD commits to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and wants to measure their implementation in Bremen every two years. Bremen's engagement for countries of the Global South, especially in southern Africa, is to continue reliably.

The United Nations agreed on goals for a better world. The SPD wants to carry out these goals in Bremen. Every two years, Bremen should check its progress. Bremen should keep helping poorer countries, above all in southern Africa.

The SPD wants to develop Bremen's sister-city partnerships further, make them better known and create more opportunities for young people. Together with Gdańsk, a solidarity partnership is to be offered to a Ukrainian municipality.

Bremen has partner cities in other countries. The SPD wants to strengthen these partnerships. Young people should be able to take part more. Bremen should also become the partner of a city in Ukraine.

The SPD wants to build a Stadtmusikanten- und Literaturhaus (Town Musicians and Literature House) in downtown Bremen and modernize the concert hall Die Glocke. Culture is meant to keep the center lively in the evenings as well. Small, easy-to-access cultural offerings are planned alongside.

The SPD wants to build a new house downtown. It is for books and for the Bremen Town Musicians. The concert hall Die Glocke should also be renewed. Culture should make the city lively in the evening too.

The SPD wants to highlight Bremen's town hall more strongly as a World Heritage site. The Untere Rathaushalle (lower town hall) is to become a World Heritage center, and new access points are to be created.

Bremen's town hall is a World Heritage site. That means it is specially valuable for the whole world. The SPD wants to show this better. A center is planned in the lower hall of the town hall. Visitors can learn more about Bremen's history there.

The SPD wants to give public funding to museums, galleries and other cultural institutions as places of learning outside school and link them more closely with schools. A pilot project called “Bremer Kulturschulen” (Bremen culture schools) is to give elementary schools money to build cultural offerings into the all-day program.

The SPD wants children to come into contact with culture more easily. Elementary schools should get money for this. They can use it to bring artists into the school. Museums should also work more with schools. There should be permanent jobs for this.

The SPD stands behind the programming of ARD, Radio Bremen, ZDF and Deutschlandradio. Radio Bremen is to remain an independent broadcaster. Public broadcasting should be able to develop across TV, radio and online, and be accessible to all.

The SPD supports the public broadcasters ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandradio and Radio Bremen. Radio Bremen should stay its own station. The broadcasters should be able to keep developing. Everyone should be able to use what they offer.

The SPD wants to make sustainability a guiding principle in Bremen's broadcasting and media laws. It also wants this principle included in the interstate treaties covering ZDF, Deutschlandradio and private providers.

The SPD wants new rules for broadcasters. Broadcasters should act in a sustainable way. That means they should care for the environment and the future. This should be written into the laws.

The SPD wants tighter regulation of international digital companies through the Interstate Media Treaty, because it sees them as a threat to free public debate. It also wants good conditions for local and regional journalism and supports net neutrality.

The SPD wants stricter rules for big internet companies. They should show openly how they work. Hate and false news online should be fought. The SPD also wants to protect local newspapers and media.

The SPD wants to deepen engagement with the Nazi past, colonialism and Bremen's migration history. Because many eyewitnesses are no longer alive, new ways of teaching this history are to be developed, including a regular youth exchange with the partner city of Haifa.

The SPD wants Bremen to remember its history. This includes the Nazi era. Young people from Bremen and Haifa should meet regularly. Haifa is a city in Israel. The history of immigration should also be told.

The SPD wants to improve pay in the cultural sector, for example artists' fees. Access to the Künstlersozialkasse (artists' social insurance fund) is to be made easier to prevent poverty in old age. The SPD also commits to protecting artistic freedom.

Artists should be paid fairly. It should be easier for them to join the artists' social insurance. This insurance helps them when they are old. That way they should not be poor in old age. Art should stay free.

The SPD wants to keep reliably funding theaters, museums, orchestras and other cultural institutions and to preserve the diversity of Bremen's cultural scene. Culture in the neighborhoods is to be strengthened as well. The platform points to culture's importance for the local economy and tourism.

The SPD wants to keep giving money to theaters, museums and orchestras. Everyone should be able to get into these places easily. There should also be good culture in the neighborhoods. The SPD says culture is also good for tourism.

The SPD wants significantly more people to take part in cultural life. Cultural institutions are to reach out into neighborhoods, and barriers for people with disabilities are to be removed. The platform sees this as a contribution to social cohesion.

The SPD wants more people to enjoy culture. Cultural groups should come to the neighborhoods. People with disabilities should get easier access. The SPD also wants to rethink ticket prices.

The SPD wants to turn the currently ad hoc arts education offerings in schools into a dependable network linking education and culture. It also backs Bremen's bid to become a City of Literature and the planned Stadtmusikanten- und Literaturhaus (Town Musicians and Literature House).

Artists already work in Bremen schools today. The SPD wants to turn this into a firm network. Schools should be able to rely on it. Bremen should also apply to become a City of Literature.

The SPD wants to make the city's cultural offerings more visible, both offline and online. A digital platform and an app with an events calendar are to be created for this purpose. Digitalization in the cultural sector is to continue overall.

The SPD wants to make culture in Bremen easier to see. There will be a website and an app. They will include a calendar of events. This should also bring new people to culture.

The SPD wants to give young cultural initiatives more room to experiment. Vacant spaces are to be listed in a culture register and made available, and hurdles for creative venues and outdoor activities are to be lowered. The aim is to attract young creative people to Bremen and keep them there.

Young artists need room to try things out. The SPD wants to collect free spaces in a list. Young groups should be able to use these spaces. There should also be fewer hurdles for new ideas.

The SPD wants to keep broadly supporting clubs as socio-cultural venues worth protecting and as a foundation for live music. Open-air events are to continue receiving organizational and financial help. Conflicts with neighbors are to be kept to a minimum through mediation.

The SPD wants many different clubs in Bremen. It sees clubs as important places for music and meeting people. Outdoor events should keep getting money and help. When there is trouble with neighbors, someone should mediate.

The SPD no longer wants to treat the city centers of Bremen and Bremerhaven mainly as shopping zones. They are to remain business locations but offer more room for housing, culture, leisure, education and meeting people. The platform points to online retail, arguing that downtowns can only compete through the quality of the experience they offer.

The SPD wants to change the city centers. They should not only have shops. People should also live, learn and enjoy culture there. The walking zones should be large. The SPD says: Many people now shop online, so the city needs new things to offer.

The SPD wants to redesign Domshof square so that it draws people all day and into the evening. In addition, the Wall ring road is to become a boulevard, and the Wallanlagen park is to be used more.

Domshof is the largest square in downtown Bremen. The SPD wants more life there, also in the evening. The weekly market should look nicer. There should be more restaurants and cafés. The street along the Wall park should also become nicer.

The SPD wants to develop a "new center" around the current Parkhaus Mitte parking garage. The city is to acquire the necessary property rights and create planning permission so that the garage can be torn down quickly and replaced by a new building complex.

There is a parking garage called Parkhaus Mitte in downtown Bremen. The SPD wants to tear it down quickly. The city should buy the land it needs for that. A new building should go up there. People should be able to walk through the area easily.

The SPD wants to create public places in downtown Bremen where nobody has to buy or consume anything. It also plans a central "Spielort 4.0" play space for children and teenagers and wants to keep the club scene near the main station.

The SPD wants new meeting places downtown. Nobody has to buy anything there. There should be a big play space for children and teenagers. The clubs near the train station should also stay.

The SPD wants to make downtown Bremerhaven more attractive by linking housing, work, culture, education and tourism more closely. It relies on more green space and unsealed ground and on a better connection to the Havenwelten waterfront. The former Karstadt site and the area around the pedestrian zone are to be redesigned.

The SPD wants to make downtown Bremerhaven nicer. There should be more green and less concrete. Columbusstraße cuts the center off from the Havenwelten waterfront. The SPD wants to change that. Residents should have a say.

The SPD wants to give the Verbraucherzentrale Bremen (consumer advice center) more funding so it can offer budget counseling at no charge and advice on energy law. The platform justifies this with sharply higher prices for heating, food and fuel.

Heating, food and fuel have become much more expensive. Many people worry about money because of this. The consumer advice center helps people with that. The SPD wants to give it more money. Then it can give free advice on spending and energy bills.

The SPD wants to renovate gyms quickly, build new halls and artificial turf fields, and upgrade club-owned facilities for energy efficiency. New and renovated facilities are to be suitable for inclusive sports.

The SPD wants to repair gyms. There should be new halls and new sports fields. Sports buildings should use less energy. People with disabilities should also be able to do sports there.

The SPD wants to significantly raise subsidies for instructors in sports clubs and change the cap on subsidized hours. Training is to become free for participants. The platform cites growing responsibilities and a shortage of qualified instructors.

Instructors run the training in sports clubs. The SPD wants to give them more money. Their training should be free. People should be able to study sports at the University of Bremen again.

The SPD wants to expand cooperation between daycare centers, schools and sports clubs, including for children under three in daycare. Children and teens should take up sports early, which the platform says promotes health and later involvement in clubs.

Children should start sports early. Daycare centers and schools should work more with sports clubs. This should also include very young children. Children from poor families should keep getting money for club fees.

The SPD wants every child in Bremen to learn to swim and wants to keep the existing public pools. Funding and staff are to be secured for this. The discounted one-euro admission is to stay in the long term.

Every child in Bremen should learn to swim. The swimming pools should stay open. The one-euro ticket should stay. The SPD will check if all pools can offer it.

The SPD wants to promote competitive sports, including through a sports boarding school and targeted programs in schools. It sees elite sports as an economic asset and good publicity for the state of Bremen. Competitive sports for people with disabilities are also to get more money.

The SPD wants to give more support to top-level sports. There should be help for a sports boarding school. Athletes with disabilities should also get more money. The SPD says this is good for Bremen's image.

The SPD wants to maintain low-cost and free leisure activities and make them better known, especially among low-income households. An advertising campaign starting in 2023 and an app are planned. The Freikarte (free pass) for children and teens is to be kept in its core form if its evaluation is positive.

Free time often costs money. The SPD wants to make free activities better known. It plans advertising and an app for this. The free pass for children should stay if it works well.

The SPD wants to continue the music, dance, and sports offerings in parks that emerged during the COVID period. A pilot project is to test whether the rules for using green spaces can be relaxed. Restrooms are to be provided at central green spaces.

During COVID, many activities took place in parks. The SPD wants to keep these activities. A test will show if simpler rules for parks are possible. Important parks should have restrooms.