What do the parties in Berlin say on work and social affairs?

The AfD wants to link welfare benefits more closely to cooperation, need and willingness to work. People who work should have noticeably more money than those who do not. Social programs and funded providers would also be reviewed regularly.

The AfD wants conditions for help from the state. People who get help should cooperate and look for work. People who work should have clearly more money. The state should check more often who really needs help.

The AfD supports the nationwide statutory minimum wage but rejects Berlin's higher state minimum wage. In the party's view, it distorts competition and makes public contracts more expensive.

Germany has a minimum wage for the whole country. The AfD thinks it is right. Berlin also has its own, higher minimum wage. The AfD rejects this one.

The AfD wants to expand accessibility based on actual need and keep sheltered workshops for people with disabilities. For older people, it calls for affordable age-appropriate housing, non-digital access to public offices and measures against loneliness. Volunteering would be supported but kept separate from government duties.

The AfD wants to remove barriers where the need is greatest. Workshops for people with disabilities should stay. Older people should get suitable homes. People should be able to reach public offices without the internet.

The AfD wants to refocus homeless services and promote voluntary return programs for homeless people without a German passport. Those the party considers truly in need of protection would receive more support.

Many homeless people in Berlin have no German passport. That is what the AfD says. It wants to help them return to their country by choice. Help for homeless people should be organized differently.

The CDU wants to help companies recruit skilled workers from abroad and speed up residence procedures. The Berlin Welcome Center is to get welcome managers, and housing for employees and apprentices is to be expanded.

Berlin wants more skilled workers from other countries. Offices should work faster. Workers should get one person to help them. There should be more dorms for apprentices.

The CDU wants to give the Berlin city cleaning company (BSR) more staff, as finances allow, and assign it more responsibilities such as green spaces and playgrounds. Long-term unemployed people would work there through mini-jobs and asylum seekers through community work opportunities.

The city cleaning company BSR should get more workers. It should also clean parks and playgrounds. Long-term jobless people should get mini-jobs there. Asylum seekers should do community work there. This should help them integrate.

The CDU wants legally mandated benefit cuts for people who deliberately evade official measures to be applied consistently. Authorities are to share data on a binding basis, and benefit fraud is to be fought more vigorously.

Some people do not cooperate with the authorities. The law then allows cuts to their benefits. The CDU wants these cuts applied every time. Offices should share data for this. Benefit fraud should be pursued more.

The CDU wants people with disabilities to participate equally in working life. A central state advisory center is to advise employers on hiring, funding and inclusion. The party also sees this as a response to labor shortages.

People with disabilities should be able to work. The CDU wants an advice center for employers. Companies get help there. For example, about funding and hiring.

The CDU wants to lower liability and tax barriers to food donations. Businesses should find it easier to give surplus food for social purposes, which is also meant to reduce food waste.

Companies often have leftover food. They should be able to donate it more easily. The CDU wants to change rules on liability and taxes. Less food will be thrown away.

The CDU wants income young people earn from student jobs, holiday work or apprenticeships to no longer be deducted from their parents' social benefits. This is meant to let young people from low-income families show initiative and take responsibility early.

Some teenagers have a side job. Their parents get money from the state. Today, the teen's pay is deducted from it. The CDU wants to change this. Teens should keep their money.

The CDU wants to prevent homelessness earlier and expand help for homeless people. Plans include a central 'House of Help', a state program modeled on Neukölln's Safe Places project and better medical care.

Many people in Berlin have no home. The CDU wants to help them more. There should be a 'House of Help'. Homeless people find help there in one place. There should also be help before people lose their homes.

The CDU wants to make family and work easier to combine through more flexible working hours and models suited to different stages of life. At the federal level, it wants to introduce a weekly rather than a daily working-time rule.

Many families want more time together. The CDU wants more flexible working hours. The rules should fit every stage of life. The federal government should set a weekly limit. Then hours count per week, not per day.

The CDU wants to expand district senior services and create staffed help points where older people get support with digital services. Loneliness is to be addressed as a social problem.

Older people should get more services. There should be places where helpers assist with online services. For example, with online banking. There should be office hours against loneliness. Park benches should invite people to chat.

The Greens want to digitize the social, youth and housing offices so that support reaches people faster and more easily. Benefits are to be handled in one place and approved through a single application. The platform also calls for a commission on old-age poverty and more debt counseling.

The Greens want to make welfare offices digital. People should get help with just one application. They should hand in their papers only once. There should also be more advice for people with debts.

The Greens want to tackle street homelessness with an action plan and expand the “Housing First” program. Cold-weather shelter is to be secured year-round and around the clock. In the platform's view, homelessness reflects social hardship rather than personal failure.

The Greens want to help homeless people more. They should be able to get their own home without conditions. This is called “Housing First.” Emergency shelters should be open all year. Medical help should also get better.

The Greens want to create open, noncommercial places for meeting, advice and support in neighborhoods. An Altenhilfestrukturgesetz (elder services structure act) is to bring together services for older people and secure their funding. The platform sees a strong social environment as the best prevention against poverty and loneliness.

The Greens want more meeting places in neighborhoods. People can get advice and help there. A new law should secure services for older people. There should also be a plan against loneliness.

The Greens want to draw up a skilled-worker strategy for Berlin that brings more women and more people with a migration or refugee background into work. Foreign vocational qualifications are to be recognized more easily, and the Willkommenszentrum (welcome center) is to offer more advice.

Berlin does not have enough skilled workers. The Greens want to make a plan for this. More women and more immigrants should find good jobs. Qualifications from abroad should count more easily. There should be one central place for advice.

The Greens want to raise Berlin's state minimum wage to at least 16.50 euros and introduce a pay cap at state-owned companies of ten times that minimum wage. As an employer and contracting authority, the state is to ensure adherence to collective agreements and a fairer distribution of wages.

The minimum wage of the state of Berlin should rise to at least 16.50 euros. In companies owned by the state there should be a top wage. No one there should earn more than ten times the minimum wage. Outsourced companies should return to the parent company. Collective wage agreements should apply there.

The Greens want to create a chamber of labor in Berlin that gives all employees a statutory body to represent their interests. It is to act alongside the unions toward companies and policymakers and advise workers, especially those in the low-wage sector.

The Greens want to found a chamber for employees. A chamber is a body of representation set down in law. It speaks for all employees in Berlin. It also gives advice to employees. This should help people with low wages most of all.

The Greens want permanent tasks at universities, music schools, Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and memorial sites to be done by regular employees rather than freelancers. According to the platform, this draws the consequences from the Herrenberg ruling on bogus self-employment.

Many teachers work for the state of Berlin without a permanent job. The Greens want to change that. Anyone who works there long-term should get a permanent job. This applies to music schools, adult education centers, universities and memorial sites. There should be model contracts for other self-employed people.

The Greens want to improve working conditions for platform workers such as delivery couriers, which the platform describes as catastrophic in part. Plans include multilingual advice on labor law, support for self-organization and a push at the federal level for a direct-hire requirement in the sector.

Many people work for delivery services and other platforms. Their work is often poorly protected. The Greens want to offer advice in several languages. Companies should have to hire these people directly. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level. Workers should find shelter when it is hot.

The Greens want to prepare workers for the changes brought by artificial intelligence through initial and continuing training. Recognition of courses for Bildungszeit (paid educational leave) is to be simplified as well. According to the platform, no one should be left behind by technological change.

Artificial intelligence is changing many jobs. The Greens want to offer more training for workers. Companies and unions should take part. Courses for educational leave should be approved more easily. Educational leave is time off work for learning.

The Greens want more inspections at workplaces and closer cooperation among authorities against labor exploitation and human trafficking. Victims are to be protected and not treated as illegal workers. Support should be available even if someone does not want to testify in criminal proceedings.

Some people are exploited at work. The Greens want more inspections to stop this. Authorities should work together better. Victims should get protection and help. They should not have to fear deportation.

The Greens want to implement the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in Berlin on a binding basis. These include equal opportunity, fewer barriers, access to social benefits and social housing, and shelter for homeless people.

The EU has written down principles for social rights. The Greens want Berlin to follow them firmly. Everyone should have equal chances. Homeless people should get a place to stay.

The Greens want people with disabilities to receive advice and support bundled in one place. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities serves as the guide, and advisory councils and the disability parliament are to carry more weight.

People with disabilities should get help faster and in one place. The districts should make firm plans for inclusion. Inclusion means everyone can take part everywhere. The disability ID card should be easier and faster to get. People with disabilities should have more say in politics.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be paid appropriately and to enter regular work and training more often. In the party's view, separate systems such as sheltered workshops often stand in the way of inclusion.

People with disabilities should get fair pay. This applies to regular companies and to sheltered workshops. There should be more companies where everyone works together. A state program should make training possible for everyone.

The Greens want to keep people from living in isolation in old age because of poverty or a lack of support. To that end, social benefits would become easier to access and meeting places would be created in every district. According to the platform, one third of Berlin's seniors are affected by old-age poverty.

Many older people in Berlin are poor or lonely. The Greens want to change that. There should be more social counseling in every part of the city. Older people should get state support more easily. Every district should have meeting places for young and old.

The Left wants to set up public neighborhood canteens across the city offering healthy meals starting at 3 euros. They are also meant to be meeting places for neighbors and to counter poverty and loneliness.

The Left wants to open canteens in the neighborhoods. They offer healthy meals from 3 euros. Every day at least one meal is made only from plants. Neighbors can meet there.

Under the guiding idea of a "caring city," the Left wants to launch pilot projects for care centers that bring social services, culture and health care together close to where people live. Vacant shopping centers in particular would be taken into public ownership for this purpose. New housing would always be planned together with social and green infrastructure.

The Left wants to create care centers in neighborhoods. People can meet there without buying anything. There is help, culture and cheap food. Empty shopping centers should belong to the city for this. Neighbors should help decide.

The Left wants a binding agreement with social service providers and welfare associations that secures funding for social services over the long term. For-profit providers in social services are to be pushed back, and the rules for public grants simplified.

Social service providers are groups that offer counseling or help, for example. The Left wants to give them steady and secure funding. Their workers should be paid according to union wage agreements. There should be less red tape. Companies that want to profit from social services should become fewer.

The Left wants to reverse the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Berlin. It plans to use the Bundesrat to abolish employer associations that operate without collective agreements and to require craft guilds to negotiate such agreements. According to the platform, economic change must not come at workers' expense.

A collective agreement sets pay and hours for many workplaces. In Berlin, fewer and fewer people work under one. The Left wants to change that. Employer groups without such agreements should no longer exist. Craft guilds should have to negotiate pay agreements.

The Left wants the shift to a climate-friendly economy not to come at the expense of workers and jobs. More companies should be able to train their staff, supported by in-house training guides (Qualifikationslots*innen).

The economy should become climate-friendly. The Left wants no one to lose their job because of this. Workers should be able to learn new skills. Guides inside the companies should help. These guides are co-workers who organize training.

The Left wants to work with unions to achieve better working conditions in the IT sector, at startups, and in click and gig work. The ban on Sunday opening in retail should stay in place, and there should be fewer Sundays on which stores may open.

Many people work through apps and online platforms. Often they have no social protection. The Left wants to change this together with the unions. Stores should stay closed on Sundays. There should be fewer special Sundays when stores may open.

The Left wants every company in which the state of Berlin holds a stake to pay according to collective agreements, with subsidiaries reaching the pay level of their parent companies. Outsourced service subsidiaries should return to the parent companies; the party also aims for a shorter workweek without loss of pay.

The state of Berlin owns many companies. The Left wants everyone there to be paid under a union contract. Subsidiaries should pay as well as the main company. Outsourced subsidiaries should become part of the main company again. People should work fewer hours and earn the same.

The Left wants employees of independent nonprofit providers (Freie Träger) to be no worse off than state employees. The state should fully reimburse wages modeled on the TV-L, the public-sector pay agreement of the states, and providers should in future be required to pay union-scale wages.

Independent providers are, for example, associations that do social work. The Left wants their staff to earn as much as state employees. The state should pay the full union-scale wages. Providers would then have to pay those wages. Normal labor rights should also apply in church-run facilities.

The Left wants to pay the Hauptstadtzulage (capital-city pay supplement) to employees of universities, nonprofit service providers, and indirect state bodies as well. The platform points to Berlin's rising cost of living and views the current rule as putting these groups at a disadvantage.

The capital-city allowance is extra pay. Right now, public service workers get it. The Left wants more people to get it. This includes workers at universities and at nonprofit service providers. The party says life in Berlin has become expensive.

The Left wants to create at least one more public holiday in Berlin and to make up for holidays that fall on a Sunday by giving the following Monday off. It opposes more Sunday work, which it says burdens families, workers in insecure jobs, and people doing care work.

Berlin has ten public holidays a year. That is fewer than any other German state. The Left wants at least one more holiday. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, Monday should be a day off. Fewer stores should open on Sundays.

The Left wants to give Berlin's workplace safety agency (LAGetSi) more staff so that businesses are inspected more effectively. In addition, prosecutors are to pursue obstruction of works councils more consistently, and every district is to get a commissioner for good work.

A Berlin agency checks workplace safety in businesses. The Left wants more staff for this agency. Then it can check more businesses. Employers who block works councils should be punished. Every district should get a contact person for good work.

The Left wants to use business and transformation subsidies to push companies to sign training agreements. The platform cites the changing economy, which it says demands new skills, and the need to secure skilled workers.

Work in many companies is changing a lot. Workers need new skills because of this. The Left wants more training alongside the job. Companies should make firm agreements on this. The state should use subsidy money to get there.

The Left wants to advance industry-specific minimum fees and model contracts for solo self-employed workers in order to push back insecure work and bogus self-employment. Self-employed women in need would receive a maternity benefit from a state program around childbirth, because they have no entitlement to maternity protection.

Many people in Berlin work alone as self-employed. The Left wants minimum fees for them. That is a lower limit for pay. The state itself should pay fair fees. Self-employed mothers in need should get money around the time of birth.

The Left is pushing for the EU directive on platform work to be transposed thoroughly into federal law. Delivery services would have to employ their couriers directly, and platforms would be liable as general contractors. The platform links platform work to bogus self-employment, disreputable subcontractors, and management by algorithm.

Many people work for apps like Uber or Lieferando. The Left sees poor working conditions there. Delivery services should have to hire their couriers themselves. Platforms should also be liable for their subcontractors. Berlin should carry out more checks.

The Left wants to better protect workers in Berlin from heat, arguing that heat-related sick days have risen sharply. It also wants the state to run its own checks on whether employers document working conditions in writing and to fine violations.

The Left wants to protect people from heat at work. State employees should get paid breaks to cool down. Employers must write down the working conditions. Berlin should check this itself. Employers who break the rule should pay a fine.

The Left wants Berlin's state minimum wage and the minimum wage for public contracts to be equal and high enough to prevent poverty, including in old age. Both would be tied to the entry level of the public-sector pay agreement for the states. Through the Bundesrat, the minimum wage should also apply in sheltered workshops for people with disabilities.

Berlin has its own minimum wage. There is also a minimum wage for public contracts. The Left wants both to be the same. They should rise with public-sector pay. People in workshops for disabled people should also get the minimum wage.

The Left wants Berlin to use its powers as a state so that more workers are paid under collective agreements. The program names four levers, from public procurement to business subsidies. It also wants to examine, together with the unions, whether Berlin should set up a chamber of labor.

The Left wants more people in Berlin to be paid under union contracts. A union contract is a pay deal between unions and employers. Whoever gets contracts or money from the state should pay these wages. The Left also wants to look into a chamber of labor. That is a body that speaks for all workers.

The Left wants to require employers to tell their employees about their right to Bildungszeit (paid educational leave). According to the program, few people use this leave because they do not know about it or fear disadvantages at work.

Workers can take paid time off for training. This is called educational leave. Many people do not know this. The Left wants employers to tell their workers about it. If they do not, the right stays valid the next year.

The Left wants to start a new publicly funded employment program for the long-term unemployed. It is meant to offer socially useful work at collectively agreed wages, after Berlin's Solidarisches Grundeinkommen (solidarity basic income) job program ended without a replacement, according to the program.

The Left wants a new program for people without work. The state should offer them useful jobs. The jobs should pay union-level wages. Nobody should be forced. The goal is a lasting job.

The Left calls for a binding state program against loneliness that reaches people before isolation becomes chronic. It also wants neighborhood canteens as local places for affordable meals and social contact. The program sees loneliness as often resulting from poverty, overload and displacement.

Many people in Berlin are lonely. The Left wants a fixed state program against this. Trained workers should reach out to lonely people. There should also be neighborhood canteens. People can eat there cheaply and meet others.

The Left wants to set up a central phone line for social hardship that refers people to the right services. It argues that Berlin's support network is fragmented and many people cannot find the service they need. Street outreach work and the welfare offices are also to be expanded.

Berlin has many support services. But many people do not find the right one. The Left wants one central phone number for help. Welfare offices should get more staff. Public offices should also write in plain language.

The Left wants to record and fight poverty in Berlin comprehensively, with a focus on children and older people. Free lunches at elementary schools and the free student transit pass are to stay. People who do not claim benefits they are entitled to should be informed about their rights.

Many children and old people in Berlin are poor. The Left wants to keep free lunch at elementary schools. The free transit pass for students should also stay. Many people do not claim the support they could get. The Left wants to tell them about their rights.

At the federal level, the Left is pushing for an individual minimum income without sanctions of about 1,400 euros including housing costs. It rejects the federal government's new basic income support, arguing that it pushes people out of apartments deemed too expensive and raises pressure on job seekers. In Berlin it wants to use the state's legal leeway for benefit recipients.

The Left wants to replace basic income support. Every person in need should get about 1,400 euros a month. Rent is included in that. There should be no cuts as punishment. In Berlin, the Left wants to give people on benefits better support.

The Left wants job centers to have more staff per benefit recipient. The job centers' digital services should be accessible to everyone. Counseling on the Bildungs- und Teilhabepaket (education and participation package for children) is to be made permanent and expanded.

The Left wants more staff in job centers. That way people get better help there. The job centers' websites should work for everyone. Children should get money for school and leisure more easily. There should be more advice for that.

The Left wants the caps on rent and heating costs that authorities cover for benefit recipients brought in line with actual rents. No one should have to pay part of the rent out of their basic living allowance. Exceptions for homeless people are to be used more often.

Offices pay the rent for people on benefits. There are upper limits for that. The Left thinks these limits are too low. They should match real rents in Berlin. Then people do not have to cut back on food.

The Left wants every shelter where authorities place homeless people to be under contract and meet fixed quality standards. Additional specialized shelters are to be created for families with children and other especially vulnerable groups.

Authorities place people without a home in shelters. The Left wants fixed rules for these shelters. There should be enough space, cleanliness and advice. Families with children should get their own shelters.

The Left wants more shelters that are open around the clock all year and wants to add counseling to the winter cold-weather aid program. People living on the street are to have safe places to retreat to. Public spaces should not be built in ways that keep homeless people away.

The Left wants more places to sleep for people without shelter. These places should be open day and night. In winter there should also be advice there. There should be help in summer too. Park benches should not stop people from sleeping.

The Left wants to tie public contracts more closely to the employment of people with disabilities and award more of them to inclusive businesses. Sheltered workshops should do more to place people in regular jobs, and at the federal level the party pushes for the minimum wage in workshops.

The Left wants more jobs for people with disabilities. Berlin gives contracts to companies. Companies that hire people with disabilities should get an advantage. Sheltered workshops should pay the minimum wage. Workshops should help people find regular jobs.

The Left wants to create a Berlin Altenhilfestrukturgesetz (elder care structure law) that sets binding rules for services for older people in every district. The aim is to ease the effects of old-age poverty and make living conditions more equal across districts.

The Left wants a new law for older people in Berlin. It should secure meeting places and advice in every district. Older people with little money should be able to live better. At the federal level the party calls for higher pensions.

The Left wants to give outreach counseling for older people more funding and more trained staff. The transition into retirement is also to be better supported. In the long run, counseling is to be bundled in one place and delivered more often in people's homes.

The Left wants better advice for older people. Advisers should visit people at home more often. There should be more money and more staff for this. People should also get help when they start retirement.

The Left wants to fight child and family poverty and make public services for children and young people free across the board. It intends to push for a basic child benefit through the Bundesrat. According to the platform, nearly a third of Berlin's minors depend on state support.

Many children in Berlin live in poverty. The Left wants to change that. Public services for children should cost nothing. For example, swimming pools should be free for children. The Left also wants a basic child benefit for all of Germany. That is a fixed payment for every child.

The Left wants to create a fund from which organizations carrying out public tasks can pay for better working conditions. The platform's reasoning is that agreements such as collective contracts to reduce workloads put a financial strain on these organizations.

Some organizations do tasks for the city. Better working conditions cost them a lot of money. The Left wants to set up a fund for this. A fund is a pot of money. The organizations get money back from it.

The Left wants to pay public-sector employees better and prevent old-age poverty in the lower pay grades. Differences in pay and equipment between the central administration and the boroughs would be eliminated so that the boroughs can fill their positions.

The Left wants to pay city employees better. No one should be poor in old age. Borough jobs often pay less than Senate jobs. The party wants to change that.

The SPD wants to respond to job cuts, digitalization, demographic change and the climate-friendly restructuring of the economy with more further training. Training alliances are to grow, and every district is to have commissioners for good work and vocational training.

The world of work is changing a lot. So the SPD wants more further training. People should be able to learn new things on the job. Every district should have a person who looks after good working conditions. Workers should also learn how to use AI.

The SPD wants to reduce long-term and youth unemployment through active labor market policy. Each year, 500 new jobs are to be created in the "Soziale Betriebe" (social enterprises) program, and existing counseling services are to continue.

More than 200,000 people in Berlin are out of work. The SPD wants to help them find jobs. Each year, 500 new subsidized jobs are to be created. Counseling centers are to stay. Women and single parents are to get special help.

The SPD wants four out of five workers in Berlin to be covered by a collective agreement. To get there, compliance with collective wage rules and the procurement minimum wage in public contracts is to be enforced more strictly, and state subsidies are to be tied to collective bargaining and co-determination.

A collective agreement sets pay and hours for many workers. The SPD wants 80 percent of workers in Berlin to have one. Companies with public contracts should pay fairly. The state should check this more strictly. Only companies with a collective agreement should get state funding.

The SPD wants tougher action against employers who obstruct works councils. Such acts are to be prosecuted automatically by the authorities in the future, and the responsible unit in the public prosecutor's office is to be strengthened.

Works councils speak for the workers in a company. Some employers get in the way of this work. The SPD wants to pursue that more strictly. Prosecutors should then investigate on their own. There should also be a new meeting for works councils and politicians.

The SPD wants to strengthen dual vocational training and found an Azubi-Werk (apprentice services agency) that advises apprentices and provides them with affordable housing. A training levy is also to come: companies without apprentices would then help pay the costs of companies that train.

The SPD wants to help apprentices. A new apprentice agency should advise them and create cheap housing. The apprentice transit ticket should stay. Companies without apprentices should pay money. This money goes to the companies that do train.

The SPD wants the state to be a model employer: all state-owned companies are to be bound by collective agreements and must not spin off units to avoid them. Earlier spin-offs made for that purpose are to be reversed. Workplace safety oversight is also to be strengthened.

The state of Berlin owns companies. These companies should pay according to collective agreements. They should not split off parts to push wages down. Where that has already happened, the SPD wants to undo it. The workplace safety authority should become stronger.

The SPD wants to foster cohesion in neighborhoods by expanding community centers and public services. New meeting places are to be created in every district. Social service providers are to be enabled to pay their staff at collectively agreed rates.

The SPD wants to strengthen neighborhoods. Every district should get new places to meet. Nobody has to spend money there. There should also be cheap canteens nearby. Schoolyards should be open on weekends.

The SPD wants to make old-age poverty the focus of its anti-poverty policy and expand social counseling for this purpose. Older people are to live independently and take part in all areas of life. The program bases this on respect for what they have achieved in life.

Some old people have very little money. The SPD wants to help them in particular. There should be more advice that is easy to reach. Help should arrive without hurdles. Culture, sports and education should be possible on a small pension too.

The SPD wants people with disabilities to be able to take part everywhere and wants to remove barriers. A new state-owned company is to operate as an inclusive business and improve access to the regular labor market. Public services and counseling are to be accessible as a rule.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers. Public offices should be easy for everyone to use. The state should set up its own company. This company should give jobs to people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to draw up an anti-poverty strategy that covers every stage of life and starts early. A central coordination office is to bundle the administration's work. Consumer protection is also to be strengthened, including with the help of AI.

Many people in Berlin are poor. The SPD wants to make a big plan against poverty. A new office should organize the work of the authorities. The SPD also wants to protect consumers better. This matters most with fraud on the internet.

The SPD wants to end homelessness in Berlin by 2030. It plans to found a "SozialWohnWerk" (social housing agency) that secures apartments for homeless people. The guiding principle is Housing First: an apartment of one's own comes at the start of support.

The SPD wants no one in Berlin to be homeless by 2030. It will set up a new housing agency. The agency finds apartments for homeless people. The apartment comes first, other help comes after.