What do the parties in Brandenburg say on housing?

The AfD wants to raise the Wohngeld (housing allowance) and simplify applications. It sees this as the alternative to social housing construction, which in its view often misses its goal.

The AfD wants to pay more housing allowance. Applying should be easier. The AfD thinks this is better than building social housing. Housing cooperatives should also become more important again.

The AfD wants to harmonize building law nationwide, speed up procedures, and lower construction standards to bring down building and housing costs. The special rules in the federal building code for constructing refugee housing are to be dropped.

The AfD wants building to be easier and cheaper. There should be fewer rules. The rules should be the same all over Germany. Special rules for building refugee housing should go away.

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper through a much simpler state building code, lower ancillary building costs, and tax relief. The property transfer tax on a first owner-occupied home and the annual property tax are to be abolished, and locals are to get priority for housing.

The AfD wants housing in Brandenburg to cost less. People buying their first own home should pay no tax on the purchase. The yearly property tax should also go away. Local people should get housing first. Buyers from abroad should pay more tax.

The AfD wants to enable more families to buy or build a home. To that end, state loans are to be expanded, guarantees granted, building land sold at a discount, and a state home-building child allowance introduced that scales with the number of children.

The AfD wants more families to be able to own a home. The state should help them with loans and guarantees. Families should get building land for less. There should be a state building allowance for children. Families with more children get more.

The BSW wants heavy investment in social housing, starting in municipalities with tight markets. It plans a Bundesrat initiative to introduce nonprofit housing status, and publicly owned apartments and land are no longer to be privatized.

Many cities lack cheap apartments. The BSW wants to build more social housing. Nonprofit housing companies should get support. The state should stop selling apartments.

The BSW wants to limit rent increases through a rent cap for all of Germany. In addition, the property tax reform is not to raise state revenue and thereby push up rents through utility charges.

Rents are rising fast in many cities. The BSW wants a rent cap for all of Germany. That is a limit that rents may not go above. The property tax should not make housing more expensive either.

The BSW wants to expand student dormitories and lower their rents. In the platform's view, studying should not depend on parents' income.

The BSW wants to build more student dorms. Rents there should go down. Studying should not depend on parents' money. Child care for students should also get better.

The CDU wants to raise homeownership rates and introduce a "Brandenburg Bonus": tax-free allowances on the real estate transfer tax for people buying their first home to live in. Construction of affordable housing is also to be further subsidized and more building land designated. In the program's view, housing should not become a social problem.

More people should own a house or an apartment. First-time buyers who live in their home should pay less tax. This tax is paid when you buy property. Each adult gets 150,000 euros tax-free, each child 100,000 euros. There should also be more building land and money for affordable homes.

The CDU wants construction to be faster, simpler and cheaper in order to create affordable housing. Permit procedures would be reviewed and building-law requirements reduced.

The CDU wants building to go faster. There should be fewer rules. Some buildings should need no permit. People should apply online.

The SPD wants to expand social housing subsidies according to need and keep funding housing construction with more than 200 million euros a year. The platform describes affordable housing as one of the major challenges of the coming years, to be tackled jointly by the federal government, the state and municipalities.

The SPD wants more low-cost homes. The state should keep paying to help build homes. It will spend more than 200 million euros each year. This also covers dorms for trainees and students.

The SPD wants to change the rules on the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) so that more municipalities in Brandenburg can apply it. Existing rental housing is also to be better protected by making it possible to block conversions into condominiums.

The rent brake limits how high rents can be in new leases. The SPD wants more towns to be able to use this rule. Rental homes should also stay rental homes. It should be possible to stop them from being turned into owned apartments.