SPD: program for the 2025 Hamburg state election

The SPD wants to keep all economic sectors in Hamburg and attract new ones. More land is to be transferred to the investment agency Hamburg Invest, and existing commercial land is to be preserved.

The SPD wants to keep companies in Hamburg. New companies should come too. That takes space. The city should keep land for business and provide more.

The SPD wants to keep funding the port with public money and modernize its infrastructure. A strategy for attracting businesses is meant to bring jobs and value creation to Hamburg rather than focusing only on container counts.

The SPD wants to keep putting public money into the port. The port should get modern facilities. Companies should set up in the port. This should create jobs.

The SPD sees lengthy planning and permitting procedures as one of the biggest obstacles for industry. A “Resilient Industry” task force is to review procedures for ways to speed them up, and the Masterplan Industrie is to be developed further.

Industrial companies wait a long time for permits. The SPD wants to change that. A working group should check what can go faster. Industry should stay in Hamburg.

The SPD wants to enable more trade workshops in multi-story commercial buildings so that businesses can stay in the city. It also wants to support digitization in the skilled trades and qualify women for leadership roles.

Tradespeople need space in the city. The SPD wants multi-story buildings for workshops. It also wants to help trades go digital. More women should become bosses in the trades.

The SPD wants to expand the city's four innovation parks and sharpen their profiles. Plans include a center for quantum technology, an additional aviation research site and an innovation district in Harburg.

Hamburg has special places for research and new companies. The SPD wants to expand them. They deal with green technology, medicine, aircraft and ships. A center for quantum computers is also planned.

The SPD wants to bring funding programs for start-ups and innovation together under a subsidiary of the city's development bank IFB. Start-up support at universities is to become clearer, and location marketing is meant to attract talent and venture capital.

The SPD wants to help new companies. Support should be found in one place. Founders should get advice and money more easily. Hamburg should also promote itself abroad.

The SPD wants to extend the culture and tourism levy and use it to fund additional projects in culture, media and sports across all districts. It also wants to strengthen tourism in the districts, the convention business and working conditions in hospitality.

Hotel guests in Hamburg pay a levy. The SPD wants to extend this levy. It wants to use the money for culture, media and sports. Tourism in the districts should grow too.

The SPD wants to support companies in the climate-friendly transformation with funding schemes. At the same time, targets already agreed are not to be tightened further so that investments remain plannable.

Changing to a climate-friendly economy costs money. The SPD wants to help companies with public funding. Climate targets should not become even stricter. That way, companies can plan safely.

The SPD wants to revise the city's innovation strategy and put creative, agile approaches to innovation on equal footing with technological research. Existing creative-industry institutions are to be strengthened and used strategically.

Many people in Hamburg work in creative jobs. The SPD wants to make more use of their ideas. The city will rewrite its plan for innovation. Creative ideas should count as much as technical research.

The SPD wants a Hamburg rule under which important public contracts go only to companies with collective bargaining agreements. It also plans a campaign for good work and fair rules for platform work.

The city awards contracts to companies. The SPD wants important contracts to go only to firms with a union wage agreement. Such an agreement sets pay and hours. This should mean fair pay for workers.

The SPD wants to keep pursuing undeclared work, exploitation of workers and social insurance fraud. It calls for enough customs staff and regular joint inspections with city agencies.

Some companies have people work off the books or exploit them. The SPD wants to keep fighting this. Customs should have enough staff. The city should often inspect together with customs.

The SPD wants to expand job-related training close to the labor market and draw up a Hamburg continuing education strategy. A transformation council and a professorship in work science are to accompany changes in the world of work.

Work is changing. People often need to learn new things. The SPD wants more training and retraining options. It wants to make a plan for Hamburg for this.

The SPD wants the Jugendberufsagentur (youth employment agency) to support young people up to age 28 instead of only 25. It plans an initiative in the Bundesrat for this. Services for young people with disabilities are also to be bundled there.

The youth employment agency helps young people start a career. So far this applies up to age 25. The SPD wants to raise the limit to 28. Young people with disabilities should also find help there.

The SPD wants to continue subsidized employment for the long-term unemployed in the regular labor market and bundle labor market support in a joint program. Single parents, parents and women active as volunteers are to receive targeted training.

Some people have been out of work for a very long time. The SPD wants to offer them subsidized jobs in companies. Single parents should also get special help. There should be courses in reading, writing and German.

The SPD wants to further improve employment conditions at universities and strengthen mid-level academic staff. At the federal level it advocates a collective agreement for student employees.

People who work at universities should have better conditions. There should be new jobs for lecturers. They mainly teach. Students with a job at the university should get a union wage agreement.

The SPD wants to create more housing for people without a home or in precarious housing and expand support based on the "Housing First" approach. Prevention, debt counseling and street social work are to be strengthened.

Some people have no home. The SPD wants to build more housing for them. They should get a home first and then further help. Every district should offer debt counseling.

The SPD wants to remove barriers in buildings, in language and in the city's digital services, and to involve people with disabilities in decisions. Workers in sheltered workshops are to receive wages and basic income support from a single source.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers in buildings and online. There should be more texts in easy language. Workers in sheltered workshops should get their money more easily. Moving to other jobs should become easier.

The SPD wants to create a senior station or senior center in every district to bundle advice services. A discounted Deutschlandticket for older people and alternative forms of housing are meant to support independent living in old age.

Older people should be able to live well in Hamburg. Every district should get a center for seniors. It offers advice in one place. The Deutschlandticket should be cheaper for seniors. Older people should be able to live at home for a long time.

The SPD wants people of all ages to remain able to afford life in Hamburg. To that end, the real estate transfer tax is to be cut for young families, construction made cheaper, and a public transit ticket for seniors introduced.

The SPD wants Hamburg to stay affordable. Young families should pay less tax when they buy a home. Building should get cheaper. Older people should get their own ticket for buses and trains.

The SPD wants to invest about 20 billion euros in city infrastructure by 2030 while sticking to sound finances. The leeway allowed by the debt brake is to be used for this.

The SPD wants to spend about 20 billion euros by 2030. The money is for roads, buses and trains, schools and playgrounds. The city should still handle its money carefully. The rules on debt should be followed.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for a reform of the debt brake that also gives the states more options. It argues that investment mostly happens locally.

The debt brake limits how much the state may borrow. The SPD wants to change this rule. The German states should also get more room. They are the ones who build and invest locally.

The SPD wants to secure the city's revenue base and insists that federal tax cuts be soundly financed and targeted at the working middle class. Under the inheritance tax, very large inheritances should no longer be able to go largely untaxed.

The city needs tax money for its tasks. The SPD wants to protect this money. People who inherit a great deal should pay tax on it. Tax cuts should mainly help ordinary workers. Top earners should not get tax gifts.

The SPD pledges that the city will not collect more overall from the reformed property tax than before. If the municipal multipliers turn out too high, they are to be lowered.

The property tax has new rules. The SPD promises this: the city will not take in more money than before. This holds for housing and for businesses. If the tax is too high, the city will lower it again.

The SPD wants to give families a reduced real estate transfer tax rate of 3.5 percent on their first purchase of a home they live in. This depends on the federal government letting the states set this tax more flexibly.

People who buy a home pay a transfer tax. The SPD wants to lower this tax for families. It applies to the first home they buy to live in. The rate would then be 3.5 percent. First the federal government must change the rules.

The SPD wants to keep creating housing in dormitories for apprentices. Companies that provide housing for apprentices themselves are to get advice and help with finding land and carrying out projects.

Apprentices have trouble finding housing. The SPD wants to build more dorms for them. Companies can also create housing for apprentices. The city wants to help them do so.

The SPD wants to extend the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake), remove exemptions and lower the cap on rent increases to 11 percent. Housing protection and the municipal right of first refusal are also to be strengthened.

The SPD wants to protect renters better. The rent brake should apply longer. It limits rent in new leases. Rents should also rise more slowly than now.

The SPD wants to revive housing construction after the rise in building and financing costs. The goal is to again permit 10,000 homes a year through faster procedures, new building land and more subsidies for affordable housing.

Too few homes are being built in Hamburg. The SPD wants to approve 10,000 new homes a year again. Permits should come faster. The city should support affordable homes more.

The SPD wants to cut construction costs in Hamburg by about a third without using public subsidies. A new "Hamburg Standard" is meant to reconcile housing quality with affordable rents.

Building homes in Hamburg costs a lot. The SPD wants to cut these costs by about a third. New building rules are meant to help. They are called the Hamburg Standard. This should lead to more affordable homes.

The SPD wants to continue and gradually expand subsidized housing despite growing budget pressure. In larger developments, the share of subsidized apartments could rise to as much as half.

The SPD wants to keep funding many low-rent homes. The number should grow step by step. In big building projects, up to half of the homes should be subsidized. Today it is one third.

The SPD wants to keep the municipal housing company SAGA in public hands and continue its course of new construction, renovation and neighborhood development. An umbrella cooperative is also to make it easier to found new housing cooperatives.

SAGA belongs to the city of Hamburg. It rents out many low-cost homes. The SPD does not want to sell SAGA. It also wants to make it easier to start new housing co-ops. A co-op is owned jointly by its members.

The SPD wants to keep developing residential neighborhoods through the RISE program and the Stiftung lebendige Nachbarschaften foundation. The areas covered by social preservation ordinances are to be kept, and new areas will be considered.

The SPD wants to make neighborhoods nicer to live in. It wants to spend money on squares, green spaces and meeting places. Some areas have special rules to protect tenants. These rules should stay. More areas may be added.

The SPD wants a funding program to encourage voluntary moves into smaller apartments and conversions of existing homes. Every district is also to offer the conditions for age-appropriate housing so people can stay in their neighborhood.

Some people live in a home that is too big for them. The SPD wants to help them move to a smaller one. There will be money and advice for this. Nobody has to move. Older people should be able to stay in their neighborhood.

The SPD wants to build about four fifths of new housing within the existing built-up city and use undeveloped land only at selected sites. The platform lists a series of major urban development projects.

The SPD wants to build new homes mostly where buildings already stand. This should cover about 80 percent of new homes. Open land should be built on only in a few places. There are several large building projects in the city.

The SPD wants to create more housing in downtown Hamburg and bring in new uses alongside retail. Squares and connections are to be upgraded, and the district centers strengthened as well.

The SPD wants more homes in the city center. Then the area is lively in the evening too. Squares should become nicer. A House of the Digital World is planned. The centers of the districts should also stay strong.

The SPD wants the city to own at least half of its land area. Using leasehold, rights of first refusal and the Grundsteuer C tax, it aims to curb land speculation and keep housing affordable in the long run.

The SPD wants the city to own a lot of land. It should be at least half of the area. The city would then sell land less often. It would rather lease it for a long time. This should keep housing affordable.

The SPD wants to create at least 3,000 new housing places each for students and for apprentices by 2030. Rents in student dorms are to be tied to the housing allowance in BAföG (federal student aid).

Students and apprentices need cheap housing. The SPD wants to build 3,000 new places for each group by 2030. Dorm rent should not be higher than the student aid amount for housing. Companies get help if they build homes for staff.

The SPD wants to keep five hours of daycare and childminder care per day free of charge. It also wants to strengthen care in early and late hours and extend how long a daycare voucher is valid.

Five hours of daycare a day are free in Hamburg. The SPD wants to keep it that way. Daycare should offer more care early and late in the day. The daycare voucher should be valid for longer.

The SPD wants to keep spending more than one billion euros a year on daycare and early education. This includes a renovation program, extra support for daycare centers in disadvantaged neighborhoods and more places for children with special needs.

The SPD wants to spend a lot of money on daycare. It should be more than one billion euros a year. Daycare buildings should be renovated. Centers in poorer neighborhoods get extra help. Children with disabilities should get more places.

The SPD wants to train more early childhood educators and make entry into the profession more flexible. It advocates appropriate pay under collective agreements.

Daycare centers need more educators. The SPD wants to create more training places. People from other jobs should be able to switch more easily. Foreign degrees should be recognized more easily. Pay should follow union wage agreements.

The SPD wants to expand parent-child centers and family counseling and to support all types of families. At the federal level it advocates adjusting financial benefits for families and fighting child poverty.

Families should get more counseling. There should be more parent-child centers. The SPD wants to support all kinds of families. It also wants the federal government to help families better with money. Fewer children should be poor.

The SPD wants to better protect children from neglect, violence and sexual abuse. To that end, the Allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst (general social service) is to be refocused and agencies are to cooperate more closely.

Children should be safe from violence and abuse. The city's social service should work closer to families. Youth office, schools, daycare and police should work together better. There should be more places for children in need.

By the early 2030s, the SPD wants to have put more than ten billion euros into school buildings and about two billion euros into sports facilities. Public buildings are increasingly to be built in series using modular construction to save cost and time.

The SPD wants to spend a lot on schools. It should be more than ten billion euros. About two billion more goes to sports fields and sports centers. Buildings should be made from a kit of standard parts. This should save money and time.

The SPD wants to keep the existing school structure of Stadtteilschulen (comprehensive district schools) and Gymnasien (academic high schools). In its view, this stability is the basis for Hamburg's rise in education rankings.

Hamburg has two kinds of secondary schools. The SPD does not want to change that. It says schools could focus on good teaching this way. Hamburg now does better in comparisons.

The SPD wants to reform and widen discounts on school lunches, especially at secondary schools. No child should stand out or be excluded at lunch because of their family's finances.

School lunch should be affordable for everyone. More children should eat for free or pay less. This applies especially to older students. Nobody should see who pays less.

The SPD wants to focus on reading, writing and arithmetic. The share of children who fall below minimum standards in German and math is to be halved in the longer term.

All children should learn to read, write and do math well. Today some children do not reach the minimum goal. The SPD wants to cut that number in half. Small classes should stay. As few lessons as possible should be canceled.

The SPD wants to replace the recommendation for a type of school with a recommendation for a school career path. It also wants to develop new grading formats, pilot a flexible upper secondary level and advance inclusive education.

Today children get a recommendation for one type of school. The SPD wants a recommendation for the school path instead. Schools should test new kinds of feedback and grades. Some schools should try out a flexible upper level.

The SPD wants to train more teachers, open new routes into the profession and reduce dropout rates in teacher training. Teachers and principals are to have less administrative work.

Hamburg needs more teachers. The university should train more of them. There should be new ways into the job. School offices should get more staff. Then teachers have less paperwork.

The SPD wants to continue the current school construction program with new buildings, extensions and renovations, because student numbers grow along with the city. Schools are to be better equipped as all-day places and designed sustainably.

Hamburg is growing. So the city needs more room in schools. The SPD wants to keep building and renovating schools. New school roofs get solar panels. All-day schools should get better furniture and equipment.

The SPD wants to fully digitize more schools and give every student there a tablet. In addition to federal Digitalpakt funds, Hamburg is to put its own money into digital school infrastructure and teacher training.

More schools should work fully digitally. Every child there gets a tablet. Hamburg spends its own money on this. Teachers should also get training for it.

The SPD wants to establish social work at every school and gradually expand multi-professional teams. It points to rising psychological strain among students and the importance of social skills for learning.

Every school should have social workers. They help children with problems. Many children feel under a lot of stress today. Children with disabilities should get more help too. There should be more programs against violence.

The SPD wants to give students more of a say and strengthen civic education. In its view, democracy can only be taught credibly if it is practiced within schools themselves.

Students should have more say at their school. The SPD wants more civic education. Schools should visit memorial sites more often. The shared religion class for all should stay.

The SPD wants to develop vocational training together with its partners in the field. The focus is on childcare, health and nursing professions and on more programs at the Berufliche Hochschule (vocational university).

The SPD wants to improve job training. Jobs in childcare, health and nursing matter most. More young people should want to learn these jobs. The vocational university should offer more programs.

The SPD wants to broaden the offerings of Hamburg's Volkshochschule (adult education center), continue digital learning formats and modernize its rooms. The youth music school is also to be strengthened.

The adult education center offers courses for adults. The SPD wants more courses. There should be new digital learning workshops. The classrooms will be modernized. The youth music school should offer more too.

The SPD wants to expand research fields such as computer science, deep tech and quantum computing and secure funding for non-university institutes. Hamburg is to become better known internationally as a science location.

Hamburg should be strong in research. The SPD wants more professors for computer science. A center for quantum technology is planned. That is a new kind of computer technology. Research institutes keep getting money from the city.

The SPD plans a Hamburg excellence competition that gives selected top researchers a special grant to work with great independence. The aim is to attract international top talent and keep it in the city.

Hamburg should get its own competition for the best researchers. Winners get extra money. With it they can do research very freely. This should bring experts from around the world to Hamburg.

The SPD pledges that studying in Hamburg will remain free of tuition fees. Cafeteria prices and the student services fee are, if possible, not to rise between 2026 and 2030.

Studying in Hamburg has no tuition fees. The SPD wants to keep it that way. Cafeteria food should not get more expensive. Libraries should be easy to use. The big university library should get a new building.

The SPD wants to put billions into renovating and expanding university buildings over the next two decades, applying the model used for school construction. By the early 2040s, Hamburg is, in its view, to have the best university buildings in Germany.

Many university buildings are old. The SPD wants to renovate them and build new ones. That costs many billions of euros. It should work like school construction. In about 20 years the buildings should be the best in the country.

The SPD sets out development goals for Hamburg's individual universities and the university hospital. These include expanding the technical university, a long-term plan for the UKE hospital and building extensions at several sites.

The SPD has plans for each university in Hamburg. The technical university should grow. The university hospital gets new buildings. The University of Hamburg should open up more to its neighborhood. The art and music colleges get support too.

The SPD wants to introduce a state care allowance for people in need of care who have only pocket money at their free disposal. At the federal level it advocates solidarity-based funding of care and less bureaucracy.

Some people who need care have only a small amount of pocket money. The SPD wants the state to give them extra money. They can use it for things like personal hygiene and medicine. For the SPD, care should not be a business.

The SPD wants to ease the burden on people who care for relatives and create more short-term care places. The platform argues that relatives carry most of the load in long-term care.

Many people care for their parents at home. The SPD wants to help these people. There should be more places for short-term care. People in need of care stay there for a short time. Advice about care should also be easier to understand.

The SPD wants to upgrade nursing and health professions through better training and working conditions in order to keep and attract skilled staff. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized more simply and quickly.

The SPD wants more people to work in care jobs. Training should be good and free of school fees. Working conditions should get better. People who trained abroad should be able to work in Hamburg sooner.

At the federal level, the SPD supports introducing a Bürgerversicherung, a single health insurance covering everyone. Long-term care insurance is also to be financed on a solidarity basis so people can stay at home for a long time.

The SPD supports a Bürgerversicherung. That is one health insurance for all people together. Care insurance should also be paid for by everyone together. People should be able to live at home as long as possible.

The SPD wants the planning and funding of medical care to reflect how many people are actually treated in Hamburg, including those from surrounding areas. High demand from outside is not to disadvantage Hamburg patients.

Many people from nearby areas see doctors in Hamburg. The SPD wants planning to count them too. Not only the number of residents should count. People in Hamburg should not be worse off because of this.

The SPD wants to keep investing heavily in Hamburg's hospitals and to specialize and concentrate services more. Emergency care is to be reorganized along the model of integrated emergency centers so that people seeking help are treated faster.

The SPD wants to modernize Hamburg's hospitals. The city will use its own money and federal money for this. Hospitals should specialize in certain treatments. Emergency care should also be organized better.

The SPD wants to improve care around pregnancy and birth by setting up midwife centers in areas where they are needed. This builds on the recommendations of the expert commission "Gesunde Geburt" (Healthy Birth).

The SPD wants better care for pregnant women and young families. There should be midwife centers for this. They will open where midwives are missing. Children's hospitals should get enough money.

The SPD wants to expand local health centers and social counseling in family doctors' offices so that each district has at least one such center. This is meant to relieve patients and practices in the neighborhoods.

The SPD wants more health centers in the neighborhoods. Every district should have at least one. People get help and advice there. Health insurers should pay part of the cost.

The SPD wants health promotion to start early and reach all age and population groups. Plans include a heat action plan and a campaign for HPV vaccination.

The SPD wants people to stay healthy in the first place. So there should be more prevention. A plan will protect people on very hot days. The city will also promote a vaccine against HPV. HPV are viruses that can cause cancer.

The SPD wants to improve care for people with mental illness and set up community psychiatry networks in all districts. A psychiatry coordination office and a crisis hotline are also planned.

The SPD wants to give better help to people with mental illness. In every district, support services should work together. There will be a crisis hotline. People should get therapy sooner.

The SPD wants to reduce the use of legal and illegal drugs through prevention and enforcement and to fight drug dealing. At the same time, help for people with addiction such as consumption rooms and drug checking is to remain and grow.

The SPD wants fewer people to use drugs. The police should go after drug dealers. But people with addiction should get help. There are rooms where they can use drugs under clean conditions. People can also have drugs tested there.

The SPD wants to handle the new cannabis laws strictly in Hamburg, with high fines, tight licensing, and inspections of cultivation associations. It places special weight on protecting children and young people.

Cannabis has recently become partly legal. The SPD wants to apply the new rules strictly in Hamburg. People who break them should pay high fines. Growing clubs will be checked. Children and teenagers should get special protection.

The SPD wants to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad and for refugees to get into work. The Welcome Center is to receive more funding, foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster and language courses expanded.

Hamburg needs skilled workers. The SPD wants people from abroad to start working faster. Refugees should find work more easily too. There should be more language courses and faster recognition of degrees.

The SPD wants to expand targeted labor immigration while curbing unmanaged immigration. It backs swift implementation of the new EU asylum rules and affirms protection for the persecuted and for war refugees.

Hamburg needs workers from other countries. The SPD wants to bring in more of them in a targeted way. It wants to limit immigration that has no rules. It supports the EU's new asylum rules. Persecuted people should still get protection.

The SPD wants to enforce the obligation to leave where there is no right to stay. The number of priority deportations of criminal offenders is to keep rising.

Some people are not allowed to stay in Germany. The SPD wants them to actually leave. Offenders with no right to stay should be deported first. An investigation team will get more staff for this.

The SPD wants to create a state integration law that secures integration services permanently and makes them binding. Language support, humane housing for refugees and invitations to apply for citizenship are to continue.

The SPD wants an integration law for Hamburg. It should secure services for immigrants for the long term. Language-focused daycare centers should stay. People who can become German should get an invitation to apply.

The SPD wants to keep Europe open with a humane asylum system. In its view, this only works if burdens are shared fairly within the EU.

The SPD wants Europe to stay open. People who flee should be treated with dignity. EU countries should share the tasks fairly. This applies to money, housing, and help.

The SPD wants to set up more safe apartments for women affected by violence and their children and to expand shelter places as needed. A dedicated service with crisis apartments is to be created for affected men.

Some women experience violence at home. The SPD wants more safe apartments for them and their children. After a women's shelter, they should get help finding a home. There should also be crisis apartments for men.

The SPD wants to advance gender equality, for instance through higher labor force participation of women and more women in leadership. Grant-based funding of social projects is to be reformed.

The SPD wants women and men to have equal chances. More women should become bosses, especially in city-owned companies. More women should be able to work. Funding for social projects should be more secure.

The SPD wants to push for adding sexual identity as a protected characteristic to Article 3 of the Basic Law. In Hamburg, queer meeting places are to be preserved and expanded and hate crime prosecuted consistently.

The German constitution bans unfair treatment. The SPD wants sexual identity to be named there too. This should protect queer people better. Meeting places for queer people should stay and grow. Hate crimes should be prosecuted.

The SPD's long-term aim is a nearly emission-free port. Shore power for cruise and container ships is to be expanded, and by 2030 there should also be enough for inland vessels.

Ships in port often make power with diesel. The SPD wants them to get power from land. This is called shore power. The port should then produce almost no exhaust.

The SPD wants to designate a dedicated area in the port for terminals and facilities for renewable energy, the “Sustainable Energy Hub.” Imports of green hydrogen and ammonia are meant to supply industry with renewable energy.

The SPD wants a place in the port for new energy. Green hydrogen should arrive there. Hydrogen is a gas that provides energy. Industry should use this energy.

The SPD considers low energy prices the key condition for competitive industry. It wants to push at the federal level for an industrial electricity price that supports companies financially until green power becomes cheaper.

Industry needs a lot of electricity. Electricity is expensive. The SPD wants a lower power price for industry. The state should help until green power gets cheaper.

The SPD rejects tighter energy-efficiency requirements for buildings in Hamburg, at the federal level and in the EU. Instead, it wants a fast, broad switch to renewable heating, which in the party's view saves more CO2 per euro spent and keeps rents down.

The SPD does not want stricter rules for insulating buildings. It wants to change heating systems instead. Buildings should use renewable heat. The SPD says this saves more CO2 and costs less. Rents should then rise less.

The SPD wants to use the campaign "Jedes Haus kann Klimaschutz" (Every house can do climate protection) to inform private owners about suitable renovation paths and support. It also plans funding and advice for neighborhood heat networks and will push for reliable federal subsidies for rental housing.

Many homeowners are unsure about heating. The SPD wants to inform them better. Each owner should get a plan for their own house. Neighbors should get help for shared heat networks. The federal government should help pay for renovating rental homes.

The SPD wants Hamburg to be climate neutral by 2045 at the latest and to cut CO2 emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. It considers an earlier 2040 target feasible only under reliable conditions, and it rejects driving bans and industry moving abroad.

Hamburg should be climate neutral by 2045 at the latest. That means the city no longer harms the climate. By 2030 there should be much less CO2. The SPD does not want driving bans. Industry should stay in Hamburg.

The SPD wants to spend a combined three billion euros on climate protection in 2025 and 2026. The money is to go to the energy and transport transition, district heating, building renovation, charging infrastructure, and hydrogen, wind and solar power.

Hamburg should spend three billion euros on the climate in two years. This makes district heating cleaner. Buildings should need less energy. There should be more charging stations for electric cars. Wind, solar and hydrogen technology get support too.

The SPD wants to designate enough land for wind turbines by 2027 at the latest. Local residents are to share in the profits, for example through a citizens' energy law.

The SPD wants more wind turbines in Hamburg. By 2027 there should be enough land for them. People living nearby should get a share of the profit. A new law could make this happen.

The SPD plans a rooftop solar drive and a tenant electricity model meant to benefit all residents financially. It also wants a rollout campaign for smart meters.

The SPD wants more solar panels on roofs. Renters should also benefit from this power. More homes should get modern electricity meters. These meters help people use power better.

The SPD wants to connect at least one third of households to district heating by 2030 and replace the Wedel and Tiefstack power plants so that heating no longer relies on coal. Municipal heat planning is to provide clarity by 2026, and the heating transition is to be cushioned socially.

The SPD wants to connect more homes to district heating. By 2030 this should cover one third of households. The heat should be made without coal. By 2026 a plan should show which heating fits where. People with little money should get help.

The SPD wants to respond to the effects of global warming with a climate adaptation strategy. Plans include a heat action plan, a shift to a "sponge city" and stronger flood protection.

The climate is getting warmer. There is more heat and more heavy rain. The SPD wants to prepare Hamburg for this. It plans a heat plan and stronger dikes. Rainwater should be able to soak into the ground better.

The SPD wants to secure the stock of green spaces, maintain and expand parks and playgrounds, and keep supporting allotment gardens. Open farmland areas and remaining moors are to stay undeveloped, and more trees are to be planted than felled.

The SPD wants to keep parks, playgrounds and allotment gardens. Every family should reach a green space in ten minutes. Moors and fields should not be built on. The city should plant more trees than it cuts down. Parks and paths should also be cleaner.

The SPD wants to open an additional animal shelter and house found animals in line with animal welfare standards. Off-leash dog areas are to be created in districts that have none, and the pigeon population is to be managed humanely.

The SPD wants to open a new animal shelter. Found animals should be housed well. There should be more areas where dogs can run free. The city wants to limit the number of pigeons without harming them.

The SPD wants to keep farming and horticulture in Hamburg despite scarce land. Compensation areas are not to reduce production, farm succession is to be secured, and weekly markets are to be strengthened.

Hamburg should keep its farms and nurseries. The SPD wants farms to find successors. Land set aside for nature should not shrink harvests. Weekly markets should get better advertising.

The SPD wants to replace the Köhlbrand Bridge with a new structure. The new bridge is to be taller so that large container ships can also reach the Altenwerder terminal.

The Köhlbrand Bridge in the port is old. The SPD wants to build a new bridge. It should be taller. Then big ships can pass under it.

The SPD wants to expand the port railway so that Hamburg remains Europe's largest rail port. At EU level it wants public funding for the port railway not to count as state aid. The port is also to be digitized through the “SmartPort” project.

Many freight trains run in the port. The SPD wants to expand the port railway. The city should be allowed to pay for it. The EU should permit this. The port should also become more digital.

The SPD wants to strengthen Hamburg Airport as an asset for the local economy, modernize its runways and attract more direct connections. Current operating hours are to stay, while noticeable fees for nighttime landings are meant to reduce evening delays.

The SPD thinks the airport matters for Hamburg. It wants to renew the runways. There should be more direct flights. Planes that land late at night should pay high fees.

The SPD wants to expand rapid transit with new lines, extensions and more frequent service to connect more districts. By 2030, all stations that are not yet accessible are also to be rebuilt.

The SPD wants more subway and commuter trains. There will be new lines, such as the U5. Trains should run more often and be longer. More districts will get a station. By 2030 all stations should be step-free.

The SPD wants to make self-driving minibuses part of public transit by 2030, mainly to improve service in the outer districts. The XpressBus network is to grow and the whole system is to be digitally connected.

The SPD wants to use small buses without drivers. They should be part of public transit by 2030. This helps most at the edge of the city. There should also be more fast bus lines. One app should link all the services.

The SPD wants to keep co-financing the Deutschlandticket with the federal government, retain the free student ticket and gradually introduce a senior ticket. A fare reform in the HVV transit association is to simplify pricing.

The SPD wants cheap tickets for buses and trains. The Deutschlandticket should stay. School students keep riding for free. Older people will get their own ticket step by step. Prices in the HVV should become simpler.

The SPD supports extending the main station to the south and calls on the federal government to prioritize and bindingly fund the renovation and expansion of the Elbe bridges. This is meant to enable the Deutschlandtakt, a nationally coordinated rail timetable.

The main station is very crowded. The SPD wants it to get bigger. The bridges over the Elbe also need to be renewed. The federal government should pay for this. Then more trains can run on time.

The SPD rejects reducing traffic lanes and parking spaces across the board, arguing that many people, especially in the outer districts, depend on cars. A parking master plan is to identify areas with heavy parking pressure where no spaces will be removed for now.

Many people need a car, mostly at the edge of the city. The SPD does not want to simply remove parking and lanes. It wants to check where parking is short. There, no spaces should be removed for now. Main roads should keep a 50 km/h limit.

The SPD backs the expansion of several highways in the Hamburg area, including extending the A 26 as a link between the A 7 and the A 1. This is meant to improve access to the port and relieve residential areas of traffic, noise and pollution.

The SPD supports widening several highways. The A 26 is to be extended. It should be finished in 2033. Trucks can then reach the port more easily. Residential areas should get less traffic and noise.

The SPD wants to substantially expand charging infrastructure for electric cars with both city-run and private operators. Buses, taxis and rental cars with drivers are to become emission-free step by step.

The SPD wants more charging stations for electric cars. The city should later run 5,000 charging points. Private firms should build 2,500 more. New buses already run without exhaust. From 2025, new taxis must also run without exhaust.

The SPD wants to focus more on modernizing existing bike lanes, complete the Velorouten cycling network and expand bike parking at rail stations. For pedestrians, sidewalks are to be repaired and made low-barrier.

The SPD wants to renew old bike lanes. The network of bike routes should be finished. Train stations should get more bike parking. Rental bikes should be available across the whole city. Sidewalks should be safe and have few obstacles.

The SPD wants to treat e-scooter rental as a special use of public space that requires a permit. Scooters would only be allowed in designated areas because badly parked vehicles block the way for others.

E-scooters often block the way. This is hard for people who have trouble walking. The SPD wants rental firms to need a permit. Scooters may then only be parked in marked areas. People who park wrongly must pay a lot.

The SPD pursues a "Digital First" goal: as many government services as possible are to be available digitally from start to finish, where possible without an application. Artificial intelligence is to help under clear data protection rules, and the fiber-optic network is to keep growing.

The SPD wants people to handle city paperwork online. A smartphone should be enough. Some services should come automatically, without a form. People who need help get it at the service center. AI should help, but personal data stays protected.

The SPD wants to invest in top AI research and in training researchers; handling AI is to be part of every degree program. For the IT security of scientific institutions, it calls for binding nationwide standards.

Artificial intelligence is becoming more important. The SPD wants to spend more on research in this field. All students should learn how to use it. Universities should be better protected against attacks on their computers. There should be fixed rules for this across Germany.

The SPD wants to consistently enforce shared rules in the city and fight organized crime. It plans to invest in the police and fire service and to strengthen the public prosecutor's office.

The SPD wants Hamburg to stay safe. It wants to spend more on police and firefighters. The prosecutor's office should get stronger too. The SPD wants to fight organized crime.

The SPD wants to add 500 more police positions over the next five years. This comes with a higher police allowance, investment in IT and buildings, and a new police academy.

The SPD wants to hire more police officers. Over five years, 500 positions should be added. Officers should get a higher allowance. The police should get modern technology and a new academy.

The SPD relies on video surveillance, more weapon-free zones and stepped-up checks, especially at events. People are to feel safe at all times in public spaces and on public transit.

The SPD wants more cameras in public places. Weapons should be banned in more areas. Police should check more there. A new app should make emergency calls faster.

The SPD wants to increase investigative pressure on organized crime and invest in security technology in the port. Money laundering is to be fought harder, criminal assets seized, and clan structures prevented from forming.

Illegal drugs reach Hamburg through the port. The SPD wants to investigate the gangs behind this more. The port should get more security technology. The state should seize money from crime.

The SPD wants to add 300 more firefighters, raise their allowance and build new stations. Disaster protection is to improve through a new department and a crisis-proof communications network.

The SPD wants to hire 300 more firefighters. The fire service should get new stations. Firefighters should get a higher allowance. Protection in disasters should also get better.

The SPD wants to act against right-wing extremism, Islamism and other extremist movements and relies on prevention and deradicalization. The state domestic intelligence office (Verfassungsschutz) is to get more staff and technology, also against espionage, sabotage and cyberattacks.

The SPD wants to protect democracy from extremists. These include right-wing extremists and Islamists. The domestic intelligence office should get more staff. It should also fend off attacks on the internet. Children and young people should be better protected.

The SPD wants the prison system to focus more on rehabilitation and to avoid jail terms for unpaid fines through prevention and community service. Secure psychiatric facilities for mentally ill offenders are to be expanded.

The SPD wants offenders not to commit new crimes after prison. People who cannot pay a fine should do community work rather than go to jail. Social workers should help early. There should be more places for mentally ill offenders.

The SPD wants city services to be delivered faster, more simply and from a single source. To that end, waiting times are to be managed centrally, residents surveyed regularly and agencies focused on core tasks.

The SPD wants city offices to work faster. People should not wait long for appointments. The city will keep checking waiting times. Every five years it will ask residents for their views. A service center downtown should stay for good.

The SPD wants to keep passing collective pay agreements on to civil servants in full and at the same time. A new bonus for citizen-facing services in the districts is to come in 2025, and the tax administration is to train as many recruits as possible.

The SPD wants good pay in the public service. Civil servants should get the same raises as employees. Staff who serve residents directly in the districts should get extra pay. The city also wants to train many tax auditors.

The SPD wants an acceleration drive to systematically reduce deadlines, procedures and requirements in Hamburg. Rules are to be reviewed and permits made simpler and digital, especially in construction.

The SPD wants permits to be faster. The city will check its rules and laws. Rules that are not needed should go. People should be able to apply online. Residents can bring in their own ideas.

The SPD wants to permanently establish the participation of children and young people through a youth participation law. Youth associations, open youth work and international exchange are also to be supported.

Children and young people should have a say in politics. The SPD wants a law for this. Youth clubs and youth groups should stay secure. There should be free places like skate parks. Exchange with other countries is supported too.

The SPD wants to strengthen staffing at courts and prosecutors' offices, shorten proceedings and digitize the justice system. It also plans a reform of legal training and a joint prosecution strategy for criminal police and prosecutors.

Many people wait a long time for a court ruling. The SPD wants to strengthen the courts. Cases should move faster. The justice system should work more digitally. Training for lawyers should also become more modern.

At the federal level, the SPD pushes for a democracy promotion law that permanently funds initiatives for democracy and against right-wing extremism. In Hamburg it wants to reduce discrimination, especially in public administration and health care, and host a democracy congress.

Many groups work for democracy. The SPD wants the federal government to fund them for the long term. A law should make this happen. In Hamburg, the SPD wants to reduce unfair treatment. This applies especially to public offices and health care.

The SPD wants to keep a pro-European course, use Hamburg's participation rights in the EU, and attract more European funding. Ties to the Baltic Sea region and European exchange are to be expanded.

The SPD wants Hamburg to have a say in Europe. The city should get more EU funding. Hamburg should work more closely with cities on the Baltic Sea. Young people should find it easier to join exchange programs.

The SPD sees the port as strategically important for security of supply in geopolitically uncertain times. Hamburg should therefore take an active part in cooperation between civilian bodies and the military.

The SPD says the world has become less safe. The port matters for supplies. So Hamburg should work with the military. The city wants to be ready for an emergency.

The SPD wants to support Jewish life in Hamburg and make it visible, and to fight every form of antisemitism. The Bornplatz Synagogue in the Grindel quarter is to be rebuilt and its surroundings redesigned together with the Jewish community.

The SPD wants to strengthen Jewish life in Hamburg. It opposes hatred of Jews. The Bornplatz Synagogue should be rebuilt. The area around it should be redesigned. The Jewish community will help plan this.

The SPD wants to continue the dialogue among religions and worldviews and to keep the state treaties with the Muslim religious communities. The shared religious education for all is to be secured through stronger degree programs and professorships.

People of many religions live in Hamburg. The SPD wants to keep talking with all communities. The treaties with the Muslim communities should stay. Children learn about religions together. More teachers should be trained for this.

The SPD wants to preserve and expand Hamburg's cultural infrastructure and secure both institutional and project funding. Funded institutions are to reach out to a more diverse audience, and cultural education is to grow.

The SPD wants to keep funding theaters, museums, and music in Hamburg. Culture should be there for everyone. Venues should reach out to new visitors. Children and teenagers should get more cultural programs.

The SPD wants to give better support to cultural producers outside institutionally funded venues. This includes a new grant for independent literary publishers and more money for clubs, film, and the independent arts scene.

The SPD wants to give money to small book publishers. Music clubs should also get more money. There will be more funding for films too. Independent artists and art spaces will get more help.

The SPD wants space for culture to be planned, preserved, and newly created in every urban development process. The city's Kreativ Gesellschaft (creative industries agency) is to become the central partner for this.

Hamburg is growing and getting denser. The SPD still wants to keep spaces for culture. New spaces should be created too. The city's creative agency should take care of this.

The SPD wants to establish good working conditions in the cultural sector. Neighborhood cultural centers are to receive enough money to pay their staff in line with job evaluations.

People working in culture should be paid fairly. Neighborhood cultural centers will get more money for this. Artists should receive minimum fees. Funding should be easier for everyone to access.

The SPD wants to continue major cultural projects despite tight budgets. These include the Haus der digitalen Welt (House of the Digital World), the German Port Museum, renovations of several venues, and a new opera house with a private foundation.

The SPD wants to keep building big cultural projects. One is a House of the Digital World in the city center. A port museum and a new opera house are also planned. Old cultural buildings will be renovated.

The SPD wants to implement the memorial sites concept, renew the exhibitions at Neuengamme, and address Hamburg's colonial past. Heritage protection is to continue in dialogue with private initiatives.

The SPD wants to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. The exhibitions at the Neuengamme memorial will be renewed. Hamburg should also deal with its colonial history. Old buildings should stay protected.

The SPD wants to strengthen Hamburg as an innovative media hub, help media companies adopt AI and other technologies, and expand games funding. Journalistic skills and news literacy are also to receive more support.

Many media companies work in Hamburg. The SPD wants to help them with new technology such as AI. Video game companies should get more funding. Good journalism should also be strengthened. People should learn to judge news properly.

The SPD wants to make the Hamburg consumer advice center's services permanent and expand them where possible. At the federal level it pushes for longer warranty periods, free credit reports and a repair index.

The consumer advice center helps people with problems over purchases and contracts. The SPD wants to keep and expand this service. Customers should have longer warranty rights. Credit reports from Schufa should be free.

The SPD wants to continue the volunteer card and make it more attractive. Volunteers are to get better training, and a "House of Engagement" is to be established.

Many people in Hamburg volunteer. The SPD wants to support them. The volunteer card gives discounts and should get better. Volunteers should get more training. There should be a house for volunteering.

The SPD wants to keep raising funding for sports clubs and investment in sports facilities so that clubs can take in more members. Sports options are to be close to home, affordable, and often free.

The SPD wants to give sports clubs more money. The city will build new gyms and renovate old ones. Sports should be nearby and cheap. Many outdoor options should cost nothing. Children from poor families should also be able to join clubs.

The SPD wants every child in Hamburg to be able to learn to swim free of charge, mainly through school lessons. To that end, swimming pools are to be expanded, modernized, and newly built.

Hamburg is a city on the water. So all children should learn to swim. It should cost nothing. Children learn it in elementary school. The city will build new pools for this.

The SPD backs a German bid for the 2040 Summer Olympics and considers a joint bid by Hamburg and Berlin possible. For the party, this depends on the support of Hamburg's residents.

The SPD is in favor of Olympic Games in Germany in 2040. Hamburg could bid together with Berlin. The people of Hamburg should agree to it. Top-level sports in Hamburg should also get better support.