What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on housing?

The AfD wants to make it easier for parents to buy a home by reducing their debt with each child. It also favors abolishing the property tax and the inheritance tax. It sees home ownership as an important part of retirement provision.

The AfD wants families to buy a house or apartment more easily. For each child, the debt for the purchase should get smaller. The AfD also wants to end two taxes. These are the property tax and the inheritance tax.

The AfD wants more people to live in a home they own, also as security in old age. To that end it plans a new home ownership grant, a lower real estate transfer tax, deductible mortgage interest and state-backed loans.

The AfD wants more people to own their home. The state should give a one-time 20,000 euros for this. The tax on buying a home should go down. The state should also help with loans.

The CDU wants to support the purchase of a first owner-occupied home with a grant called "HeimVorteil BW." It would pay €10,000 per working person and €5,000 per child. Young families are the main intended beneficiaries.

The CDU wants to help people buy their first home. Each working person would get 10,000 euros. Each child adds 5,000 euros. This is meant to help young families most.

The CDU wants to make building new homes easier and cheaper, which it sees as the most effective route to affordable housing. It plans a new building category with lower standards, more land for construction, fewer requirements and faster permits.

The CDU wants more homes to be built. Building should become easier and cheaper. There would be a new type of building with less strict rules. Towns should release more land for building.

The CDU wants to raise the state's social housing subsidies substantially and in future match every federal euro with a state euro. It wants to stimulate the construction of rental housing through better tax depreciation rules.

The CDU wants to spend more money on low-cost homes. The state should pay as much as the federal government. People who build rental homes should get tax benefits. People without a home should get one quickly.

The CDU wants to change the rule that allows citizens' initiatives against the very first decision in a land-use planning process, arguing that this delays or halts projects. A new state development plan is to allow more space for housing and business.

Today, citizens can call a vote on their town's building plans early on. The CDU wants to change this rule. It says this delays many building projects. A new plan for the state should allow more land for homes and businesses.

The Greens want a state-owned housing company that builds and rents out homes itself. It is to buy back large housing portfolios from private companies. A funding program would also enable municipalities to purchase housing.

The Greens want a housing company owned by the state. It should build and rent out homes. It should also buy many homes from private companies. Cities and towns should get money to buy homes.

The Greens want to make the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) a permanent part of tenancy law and push for its expansion at the federal level. In the state it is to apply in more areas, and a rent monitor is to check compliance.

The rent brake limits rents in new leases. The Greens want it to apply for good. It should apply in more places. A computer program should check rental ads. This shows the town where rents are too high.

The Greens want to make the ban on misusing housing for other purposes more effective. Municipalities are to be able to inspect and sanction vacancies more easily so that empty or repurposed homes are lived in again.

Some homes stand empty or are used for other things. The Greens want to change that. Towns should be able to check empty homes better. They should also be able to give fines. The state helps list empty homes.

The Greens want to put more money into social housing support and simplify it. Instead of about 3,000, at least 5,000 new social housing units are to be created each year. Existing rent restrictions are to be preserved and future ones extended.

Social housing means homes with low rent. Today about 3,000 are created each year. The Greens want at least 5,000. The state gives more money for this. The homes should stay cheap for longer.

The Greens want to make the "Junges Wohnen" (young living) program permanent and build significantly more dorm places. In university towns, 30 percent of students are to be offered a dorm place. For apprentices, the hurdles to renting are to come down.

Young people have a hard time finding a home. The Greens want to build more dorms. Almost one in three students should get a place there. Apprentices should get a lease more easily. Proof of their training will be enough.

The Greens want to make communal, inclusive and accessible housing a core part of housing support. Developers and cooperatives oriented toward the common good are to receive state loan guarantees. Housing for company employees is also to get more support.

The Greens want to support new ways of living. For example shared homes for older people. Small building groups and cooperatives get a guarantee from the state. This means the state backs their loan. Companies also get help when they build homes for staff.

The Greens want to introduce a Baden-Württemberg standard for affordable building and remodeling. All building requirements are to be checked for whether they are necessary. Municipalities should also be able to easily set the mandatory parking space requirement to zero.

Building has become expensive. The Greens want to review the building rules. Rules that are not needed should go. Hamburg serves as a model. Towns should be able to say: no one has to build parking here.

The Greens want building standards geared more closely to actual need, leaner planning and faster permits. Model contracts are meant to protect private builders from liability for standards that go beyond what the law requires. The aim is more affordable housing.

The Greens want building to cost less. Building rules should be simpler. Permits should come faster. There should be ready-made contract templates. They protect people who build a home.

The Greens want to advance resource-saving, circular construction: building components and materials should be easier to reuse. New funding programs and centers are meant to bring innovations into building practice faster and make construction cheaper.

The Greens want less building material to be thrown away. Old building parts should be used again. New buildings should be easy to convert. Companies with new ideas for building should get money.

The Greens want town centers and neighborhoods with short distances, green spaces and meeting places, adapted to heat and heavy rain. Public spaces should be open to everyone without pressure to spend money, and meeting places for children and young people should be preserved.

The Greens want good neighborhoods for everyone. There should be more green and more shade. This helps with heat and heavy rain. Public squares should be open to all. Children and young people should have places to meet.

The Greens want more low-barrier housing and age-friendly neighborhoods so that people can stay in familiar surroundings as they grow old. A relocation bonus is meant to make it easier to move into a smaller home in the same neighborhood, freeing up space for families.

The Greens want more homes without barriers. Older people should be able to stay in their neighborhood. People who move to a smaller home should get a bonus. Then the big home is free for families.

The Greens want to expand the state's land fund so that municipalities can secure plots for social, ecological and public purposes. The program cites church-owned land as an example, which in the party's view could otherwise end up with speculators when sold.

The state has a fund for land. It helps towns and cities buy plots. The Greens want to improve this fund. That way, land stays available for affordable homes and for the public.

The Greens want to keep funding the conversion of vacant buildings into homes and allow such changes of use without a permit procedure. This is meant to save land, revive town and village centers and create housing, especially in rural areas.

Some buildings in rural areas stand empty. The Greens want to turn them into homes. Funding for this will continue. Conversions should be possible without a long procedure.

The SPD wants to found a state-owned housing company called BWohnen that builds affordable rental housing together with municipalities and keeps it permanently in state ownership. Housing subsidies are to be realigned so that the state matches federal funds one to one. The party regards housing as a basic public service.

The state should build homes itself again. The SPD wants to create a new company for this. It is called BWohnen and belongs to the state. The homes should be affordable and stay with the state. Dorms for apprentices and students should get funding too.

The SPD wants any city or district to be designated a tight housing market as soon as the local building authority finds that affordable housing is lacking. A state land fund would buy plots and pass them on to nonprofit-oriented developers. In the party's view, land belongs under public responsibility.

Cities should find it easier to say: we lack affordable homes. Then they get more powers. For example, they can buy land first. The state should buy land too. It then passes the land to builders of affordable homes.

The SPD wants to extend the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the ban on converting rentals to condos to more municipalities, and to cap inflation-indexed rents. Subsidized apartments would normally stay price-controlled for 30 years. The party's stated goal is that no one has to spend more than 30 percent of net income on rent.

The SPD wants stronger limits on rents. The rent brake should apply in more towns. It limits how high new rents can be. Subsidized homes should stay cheap for 30 years. No one should pay more than 30 percent of income for rent.

The SPD wants to tighten the ban on misusing housing for other purposes, raise fines and help municipalities set up vacancy registers. Where homes stay empty long-term with no prospect of use, municipalities would be able to start purchase or expropriation proceedings as a last resort.

Homes should not sit empty. The SPD wants higher fines for that. Owners may rent homes to guests for only five weeks a year. Today it is ten weeks. If a home stays empty very long, the city can take it over as a last step.

The SPD wants to refund the real estate transfer tax to families buying their first home. A program called “Jung kauft Alt” (Young Buys Old) would also make it easier to buy and renovate old houses in rural areas. The party aims to promote home ownership and village development this way.

Families should find it easier to buy a home. On their first purchase they get a tax back. It is the tax on buying property. People who buy an old house in a village should get help. There will be grants and advice.

Following Hamburg's example, the SPD wants to simplify building rules and technical standards enough to cut construction costs by up to a third. New housing should, where possible, come from adding stories and densifying, without sealing more land.

Building is expensive. The SPD wants fewer and simpler building rules. That should lower costs by up to one third. New homes should often go on top of existing buildings. That keeps more land open.

The SPD wants to promote sustainable building materials, make new public buildings climate-neutral and make energy retrofits the focus of state subsidies. The sponge city principle is to guide residential neighborhoods so that cities can cope with heavy rain, heat and drought.

The SPD wants building to harm the climate less. New buildings of the state and cities should be climate-neutral. Often they should be made of wood. Cities should store rainwater like a sponge. That helps in heat and heavy rain.

The SPD wants a state action plan to end homelessness in Baden-Württemberg by 2030. A broad support system with specialist offices in every city and county is to be built. The "Housing First" approach, under which people get a home first, is to be expanded considerably.

The SPD wants no one to be homeless by 2030. The state should make a plan for this. Every county should have offices that help. Homeless people should get a home first. Shelters should be decent places.