What do the parties in Hesse say on housing?

The AfD wants to stabilize rents and prices by increasing the housing supply. Building land would be designated faster and building rights created more quickly. The state would also relieve municipalities of the follow-on costs of housing construction.

Many cities have too few homes. The AfD wants more new homes. For this, land for building should be made available faster. Permits should come faster. The state should help towns with the costs.

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper by lowering building standards and scrapping the CO2 charge. Building law would also be simplified and unified nationwide. Permits would be processed faster and more digitally.

Building is expensive. The AfD wants to lower the costs. The CO2 charge should go. The rules for fire safety, insulation, and noise protection should be looser. Building law should be the same and simpler across Germany.

The AfD wants to help more people own their homes, saying ownership builds wealth and eases costs in old age. Public housing companies would have to sell their apartments to tenants. Locals and housing cooperatives would get preference in allocations.

The AfD wants more people to own their home. Tenants in public housing should be allowed to buy their apartment. Local people should come first for building plots. Housing cooperatives should also get land more easily. Young families should be able to lease land.

The AfD wants to support low-income renters through Wohngeld (housing benefit) rather than social housing. In its view, social housing leads to units being occupied by people no longer eligible and cannot meet demand. Where Wohngeld is not enough, a municipal housing benefit would be added.

The AfD wants to rely less on social housing. People with little money should get a housing benefit. That is money to help pay the rent. In expensive cities, the town should pay an extra benefit. Cities should also secure homes for people in need.

The AfD rejects rent brakes, rent freezes, and bans on privatizing housing. In its view, such interventions worsen the problems of a housing market that would work without the state.

The AfD does not want rent caps. It does not want rent freezes either. The state should not ban the sale of public housing. The AfD says the housing market works better without these rules.

The AfD wants to loosen fire safety and heritage protection rules. In its view, these requirements make it uneconomical to keep village inns and historic town centers.

The AfD wants looser rules for fire safety. The same goes for protecting old buildings. The AfD says many village inns close because of these rules. Fixing up old houses costs too much.

The CDU sees more housing as the only route to affordable housing and therefore wants to cut construction costs and requirements. A task force is to simplify procedures; converting offices and adding stories to buildings are to become easier.

The CDU wants building to become cheaper. A working group should make rules and procedures simpler. Offices should more easily become apartments. New floors should be allowed on top of existing buildings, including supermarkets.

The CDU wants to enable more people to buy a home and plans to pay a "Hessengeld" grant for the first purchase of an owner-occupied property. This is paired with adjusted subsidized loans and initiatives at federal level for tax relief.

The CDU wants to help people buy their first own house or apartment. The state should pay money for this. Each buyer should get 10,000 euros. Every child adds another 5,000 euros. State loans should also reach more people.

The CDU wants to scrap the review required before rental apartments in larger buildings can be converted into condominiums. Rules on Zweckentfremdung (use of housing for other purposes) are also to be fundamentally revised so owners can decide more freely about their property.

The CDU wants to give owners more freedom. Today there is a review before rental apartments become owner apartments. The CDU wants to abolish this review. Other rules on how housing may be used should also become looser. The CDU rejects a ban on single-family homes.

The CDU wants municipalities to be able to designate new residential building land faster and more easily. Financial incentives, a digital land register and subsidies for development costs are meant to help.

The CDU wants more land for housing. Towns should be able to set up new building areas faster. They should get money as an incentive. The state should offer a digital list of suitable sites.

The CDU wants to secure affordable housing through housing benefit, the purchase of occupancy rights and more practical subsidy rules. It rejects tightening rent regulation, as well as speculation with building land or vacant apartments.

The CDU wants to keep low-cost housing. The state should buy rights so that social housing stays cheap. The new housing benefit should reach people quickly. The CDU does not want stricter rules on rent prices.

The CDU wants more senior-friendly and accessible housing. It wants to support housing complexes for older people statewide, subsidize the conversion of existing homes, and expand multigenerational forms of living.

Older people should be able to stay in their homes for a long time. The CDU wants to pay for changes to homes. One example is adding elevators. There should also be more housing for seniors.

The CDU wants to fight homelessness in Hesse and develop a support plan together with municipalities and social service providers. It also wants to examine whether the "Housing First" approach can help.

Some people have no home. The CDU wants to help them. Helpers should go to where these people are. The CDU will also look at the idea of "Housing First." This means people get a home first.

The CDU wants to make it easier to convert old barns, stables and commercial buildings in village centers into housing or other uses. Mid-sized rural towns are also to benefit more from urban development funding, and bus and rail service is to be reliable there.

Many old barns and stables in villages stand empty. The CDU wants to make it easier to turn them into homes. Small towns in the countryside should get more money for urban development. Buses and trains should run reliably in the countryside too.

The FDP wants growth in land used for housing and transport to fall to zero by 2050. Before new residential or commercial zones are created, vacant lots, existing buildings and brownfield sites should be used.

Land cannot be multiplied. So the FDP wants to build on less new land. From 2050, no new land should be added on balance. Gaps and old buildings should be used first. Buildings should also be allowed to be taller.

The FDP wants to boost housing construction with fewer rules and faster procedures. Binding deadlines would apply to building permits; if a deadline passes, the application counts as approved.

The FDP wants faster building. Offices should decide on building applications within fixed deadlines. If they miss them, the application counts as approved. Turning an attic into a home should no longer need a permit. Applications should be possible online.

The FDP wants to abolish the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the 2022 ban on converting rental apartments into condominiums. The period during which tenants cannot be evicted after a conversion would drop from eight to five years. The party argues these rules hold back investment and home ownership.

The FDP wants to end the rent brake. This rule limits rents in new leases. The FDP says the rule prevents new housing. Rental apartments should again be allowed to become owned apartments. Protection from eviction after that should last five years, not eight.

The FDP wants a one-time allowance of up to 500,000 euros on the property transfer tax when someone buys their first owner-occupied home. State programs that support home ownership would also be redesigned so more people can buy.

People who buy a house pay a tax. The FDP wants to cut this tax for the first home of your own. Up to 500,000 euros would be tax-free. This only applies if you live there yourself. State support programs should also get better.

The FDP wants to scrap Grundsteuer C, a property tax on land ready for building, before it can first be levied in 2025. The levy on social housing tenants whose income has risen would also go, and the property tax as a whole would be reviewed in 2027.

From 2025, towns may charge an extra tax on empty building land. The FDP wants to end this tax before then. A charge in social housing should also go. Tenants pay it when they now earn a bit more. The FDP thinks this charge is unfair.

The FDP wants to review the state's building land initiative and make it more effective, because it sees a lack of building land as one cause of housing shortages and rising rents. The municipal fiscal equalization system should reward municipalities that designate land for housing.

The FDP says there is too little building land. That makes housing scarce and expensive. The state should help towns more to create building land. Towns should get more money when they release land for housing. Gaps between buildings should also be filled.

The FDP wants to reform heritage protection in Hesse to make modernization of listed buildings easier. Requirements should be kept as low as possible so their cost does not hold back new housing.

Some old buildings are protected as monuments. Changing them is hard and costly. The FDP wants to relax the rules. That should create more homes there. For decaying buildings, protection should be easier to end.

The FDP wants planning and approval of construction projects to be handled entirely digitally so that bureaucracy does not slow housing construction. In publicly funded building projects, fiber optics and cell towers would become mandatory where suitable.

The FDP wants building applications to be digital. Instead of paper plans, people hand in digital models of the building. This should help homes get built faster. Buildings paid for with public money should get fast internet built in.

The Greens want a €2 billion state program to promote housing construction and increase the number of social housing units every year. In the party's view, housing should not be left to the market alone; more homes are to be publicly owned.

The Greens want more affordable homes. The state should spend 2 billion euros on this. There should be more social housing every year. Social housing means low-cost homes for people with little money.

The Greens want a state law allowing municipalities to act against the misuse of residential space. Homes are to serve as permanent residences rather than stand empty or be used as offices or vacation rentals.

Homes should be for living in. They should not stand empty. They should not be offices or vacation rentals for good. The Greens want a new law for this.

The Greens want to protect tenants from disproportionate rent increases and call for changes to federal law. These include reformed tenancy law, a more effective Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and lower caps on rent increases.

Rents should not rise too much. The Greens want stricter federal rules for this. The rent brake should work better. Bills for extra housing costs should be clear.

The Greens want to back housing models geared to the common good with a dedicated funding program. Communal, cooperative and mixed-age housing projects are meant to help older people and people with disabilities live independently in familiar surroundings.

The Greens want to support new ways of living together. There will be a special funding program for this. One example is homes where young and old people live together. This helps older people live on their own for longer.

The Greens want to help municipalities with advice, digitalization and more skilled staff in building departments so that planning, climate protection and heritage tasks are handled faster. Local advisory offices are meant to encourage renovating and extending existing buildings.

The Greens want to help towns and cities with building. Building offices should get more skilled staff. Advice centers should help people renovate. To renovate means to renew an old house.

The Greens want to provide subsidized housing for at least one in ten students in Hesse, putting the state above the national average. At the federal level, the party wants more students to qualify for BAföG (federal student aid) and a housing supplement that depends on the place of study.

The Greens want more affordable housing for students. At least 10 in 100 students should have subsidized housing. More students should get student aid. In expensive cities, there should be extra money for rent.

The SPD wants to found apprentice service organizations across the state, modeled on the existing student services organizations (Studierendenwerke). Their main task is to create low-cost housing near the training company. The party also backs a discounted Deutschlandticket for apprentices.

Students have student service organizations. They offer cheap rooms, for example. The SPD wants the same for apprentices. The rooms should be close to the company. Apprentices should also get a cheaper Deutschlandticket for public transit.

The SPD wants more subsidized and price-reduced housing for different groups and plans to expand public housing construction to that end. Municipalities are to get more leeway through a reform of the municipal code.

The SPD wants more affordable homes to be built. The state and towns should do more for this. There should be homes for families, students, and older people. Empty offices should also become homes.

The SPD wants more public funding for energy-efficiency retrofits of buildings so that housing stays affordable despite rising energy prices. Energy standards are to be set with an eye to keeping renovations affordable.

The SPD wants to give more money for renovating houses. Then houses use less energy. That should protect the climate and lower costs. Renovating should still be affordable.

The SPD wants to make housing construction cheaper by simplifying building law and reforming the real estate transfer tax. Planning and permitting are to be faster so that more land is available for building.

The SPD wants building to cost less. For that, building rules should become simpler. The tax on buying land should also change. Permits should come faster.

The SPD wants to ban by law speculative vacancy and other misuse of housing. Land is to stay in public hands as far as possible, and housing construction that does not aim at profit is to be supported.

The SPD wants to ban leaving homes empty on purpose. Nobody should speculate with homes. The state should keep a lot of land. Housing cooperatives should get more help.

The SPD wants to classify more municipalities as tight housing markets so that the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and other protections apply there. It argues that rents have recently risen faster than salaries.

Rents are rising faster than wages. So the SPD wants to protect renters better. The rent brake should apply in more towns. More towns should get an official rent index.

The SPD wants to set up a state program for social housing assistance services that help people in difficult circumstances find a home. Municipal offices are also to prevent people from losing their homes. The program sees having a home as a precondition for taking part in society.

The SPD wants to help people in need find a home. The state should set up a new funding program for this. Towns should have special offices. These offices should stop people from losing their homes.

The SPD wants to launch 10,000 student dorm places during the next legislative term. In the long run, one in five students should have access to subsidized housing. The platform argues that fewer than one in ten students in Hesse currently has a dorm place.

Many students cannot find an affordable place to live. The SPD wants 10,000 new places in student dorms. Later, one in five students should get subsidized housing. Students in expensive cities should also get extra money for rent.