SPD on other topics

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.

On-site advice in Billstedt/Horn, Lurup, Neuwiedenthal and Osdorfer Born and digital services such as video consultations are to stay. At the federal level, the SPD calls for a cap on the amount in dispute in injunction suits to benefit consumer advice centers. Credit reports, for example from Schufa, are to be free and transparent at least once a quarter. A repair index is meant to cut waste, save resources and promote a circular economy.

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 volunteer card (Ehrenamtskarte) offers discounts on various services in the city. More training is meant to make it easier to start volunteering. In the coming term, the SPD wants to set up the "Haus des Engagements." Volunteer work for refugees is to keep receiving support, for example through the "Forum WIR."

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.

According to the platform, another 467 million euros are planned for school gyms through 2030, with 100 new court units and about 30 renovated halls; in total at least 1.1 billion euros are to go into sports infrastructure from 2020 to 2030. Clubs are to keep using the facilities free of charge. Regular funding under the sports funding agreement is to rise step by step, and the "Kids in die Clubs" project is to be secured long term. Also planned are the Elbdome, an arena for 8,000 spectators, and from 2026 a regional-league soccer stadium in Altona. Free exercise options in public space and sports for women, inclusion, and rehabilitation will be supported.

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.

Children are to get a swimming course lasting one year in total during third or fourth grade; where that is not enough, extra options will be added. The MidSommerland pool will be modernized, and new pools will be built in Hamm-Süd and Oberbillwerder. A combined indoor-outdoor pool is to be built at Fischbeker Reethen in Süderelbe, ideally coordinated with Neu Wulmstorf. For teaching pools run by clubs and foundations, the SPD wants to work out with the operators how to tackle the renovation backlog.

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.

According to the platform, Hamburg and Berlin would complement each other and manage without costly new venues. Major sports events are meant to generate enthusiasm and motivate young athletes. For elite sports, the SPD wants to modernize and expand the Olympic training center at Dulsberg. Together with the elite sports school, a top-level sports campus is to be created there.