What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on housing?

The AfD wants more people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to be able to afford their own house or apartment. Tax advantages would be tied to conditions such as building in the regional style or guaranteeing affordable rents. Accessible housing suited to older people would also be supported.

The AfD wants more people to be able to buy a home. People who build in a way that helps the state should pay less tax. One example is offering low rents. The state should also support homes for older people.

The AfD wants to remove building rules it considers unnecessary and create a single statewide framework. This includes reforming the forest law, adjusting heating standards, and setting short deadlines for species protection reports.

The AfD wants building to go faster. It wants to remove building rules. The same rules should apply across the whole state. Reports on protecting animals should be finished sooner.

The AfD wants targeted support for housing cooperatives and municipal housing companies. Vacant buildings would be made usable again through subsidized renovation and conversion. Housing should stay affordable first for local residents, including against pressure from vacation rentals.

The AfD wants to keep low-cost housing. It wants to help housing co-ops and town-owned housing companies. Empty buildings should be rebuilt with public money. People who live here should come before vacation rentals.

The AfD wants to give lasting security to allotment gardens, weekend settlements, and settlers' associations. Their interests would have to be taken into account in urban and regional planning. When such land is sold, local residents would get priority over outside investors.

The AfD wants to protect allotment gardens and weekend settlements. Towns should have to consider them when they plan. Clubs and tenants should be able to stay safely. When land is sold, local people should get to buy first.

The Greens want to simplify and speed up permits for housing construction. Existing buildings should be put to better use, for example by adding floors or converting vacant commercial space. The platform argues that slow procedures make the housing shortage worse.

The Greens want building to go faster. People should be able to file building applications online everywhere. Empty buildings should become homes. Building offices should get enough staff.

The Greens want to noticeably increase and overhaul the state program "Wohnungsbau Sozial" (social housing construction). Cheaper loans and higher grants are meant to produce more social housing that stays rent-controlled for a long time. According to the platform, affordable housing often fails for lack of financing.

The Greens want to spend more money on social housing. These are homes with low rents. Builders of such homes should get cheaper loans. Rents should stay low for as long as possible.

The Greens want new state programs to renovate old buildings, revive village centers and open up existing properties to young families. A home-swap action program and support for senior housing and multigenerational living are meant to help people find homes that fit their stage of life.

The Greens want old houses in villages to be used again. Young families should get help buying old houses. There should be advice on swapping homes. Older people should find smaller homes that fit them. Then large homes become free for families.

The Greens want to set up a state land fund that gives municipalities low-cost loans to buy land and buildings. Publicly owned land would in future be granted primarily under ground leases rather than sold. The party aims to curb land speculation and steer social housing development.

The Greens want a state land fund. Towns can get cheap loans from it. They can use the loans to buy land and buildings. Public land should no longer be sold. Instead, it should be leased for a long time.

The Greens want to apply the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) consistently in tight housing markets and enforce tenancy law more strictly. A monitored ban on using housing for other purposes is to be added. The platform cites sharply rising rents in cities and tourist regions.

The Greens want to use the rent brake wherever homes are scarce. The rent brake limits the rent in new leases. Homes should not simply be turned into vacation rentals. Officials should check this.

The Greens want to simplify the state building code and review technical standards for usefulness and cost-effectiveness. Parking space requirements are to be relaxed. The platform says high building costs push up rents and slow housing construction; quality and safety are to be maintained.

Building is expensive. The Greens want to make the state's building rules simpler. Builders should have to provide fewer parking spaces. Homes made from ready-made parts should get support. This should make building cheaper.

The Left wants to use the Bundesrat to have a basic right to housing written into the constitution. It supports a nationwide rent cap in areas where housing is scarce and wants to reform the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake). People with low and middle incomes should have to spend less than 30 percent of income on housing.

The Left says housing is a basic right. This should be written into the constitution. Where homes are scarce, there should be a limit on rents. People with little money should not pay too much for housing. There should be more dorm rooms for students and trainees.

The Left wants to secure the finances of municipal and cooperative housing companies and prevent their sale to private owners. Land owned by the state and municipalities is to stay in public hands and be used for social housing. In the party's view, these companies ensure affordable housing over the long term.

Many homes belong to cities or cooperatives. The Left wants to protect these companies. They should not be sold to private firms. Land owned by the state and towns should not be sold either. Social housing should be built there.

The SPD wants to subsidize the construction of homes with affordable rents and apply the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) in urban centers. Families are to get help buying a home, and 1,000 dorm places are planned for apprentices and students.

Housing should stay affordable. The SPD wants to support building cheap homes. In popular places, the rent brake should apply. It limits how high a new rent can be. Young people should get 1,000 places in dorms.

The SPD wants new hotel projects to be linked to housing for tourism workers. To that end, the state is to lobby the federal government for corresponding rules in building law. Tourism should develop in a way that gives equal weight to locals' interests in affordable housing and quality of life.

Tourist towns often lack affordable homes. Whoever builds a hotel should also build homes for the workers. The SPD wants new federal rules for this. The wishes of locals should count as much as those of guests.

The SPD wants to keep the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) in Rostock, Greifswald and several tourist towns until housing markets there ease. In heavily strained tourist regions, local bylaws against misuse of housing are to keep limiting the conversion of homes into vacation rentals.

In some places, homes are scarce and costly. A rent brake applies there. It limits the rent in new leases. The SPD wants to keep it. Fewer homes should become vacation rentals.

The SPD wants to further develop funding for housing aimed at young people, using federal money. The focus is on building new dorms and expanding existing ones for apprentices and students.

Young people need affordable rooms. The SPD wants more dorms for apprentices and students. The state will use federal money for this. Getting the funding should be simple.

The SPD relies on social housing and mixed neighborhoods to prevent displacement. Municipalities are to get support in buying land to hold in reserve, and modular and serial construction is to receive more funding.

The SPD wants more social housing. Poorer and richer people should live in the same neighborhood. Towns should buy land and keep it for housing. Homes made from ready-made parts should get more funding.

The SPD wants to keep funding the construction and renovation of affordable, accessible homes in rural areas too. This is meant to let older people stay in familiar surroundings; energy retrofits are to remain affordable.

Rural areas should have suitable homes too. Older people need homes without steps or barriers. The SPD wants to fund such homes. That way, older people can stay in their village.