What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on housing?

The AfD wants to create a state fund of 50 million euros from which municipalities receive money to buy undeveloped land. This would let them take advantage of land prices that are still comparatively low and build up land reserves.

Land is still cheap in many places. The AfD wants to set up a fund with 50 million euros. A fund is a pot of money for one purpose. Towns can use it to buy empty land. Later they can turn it into building land.

The AfD wants to reduce demand for housing by deporting rejected asylum seekers. It attributes rising rents to asylum migration over the past ten years.

The AfD says rents went up because of many asylum seekers. It wants to send rejected asylum seekers back home. Then fewer people would look for a home. The AfD expects price pressure to ease then.

The AfD wants to align the state building code with the national model building code and in some areas simplify it even further. Master craftsmen in all building trades would be allowed to plan and submit smaller projects in their field themselves. This is meant to lower construction costs.

The AfD wants simpler building rules in the state. The rules should match the shared model of the German states. Master craftsmen would be allowed to hand in small building plans themselves. Today people often need an architect for that. Building should get cheaper this way.

The AfD wants to make it easier to voluntarily convert a single-family home into a two-family home. At the same time it explicitly rejects any tax on living space. The aim is to free up unused housing, for example after children have moved out.

Some houses have become too big for the people in them. The AfD wants to make it easier to turn them into two homes. This should stay voluntary. The AfD rejects a tax on living space. Some building requirements would be dropped for this.

The CDU wants the state to pay families a flat grant when they first buy a home to live in. Under the concept "Aus Eins mach Zwei" (turn one into two), single- and two-family houses that have become too large are to yield extra housing through conversion, added floors or division.

The CDU wants to help families buy their first own home. Each parent would get 10,000 euros. Each child under 18 adds 5,000 euros. Large houses should be easier to split into two homes.

The Greens want to create housing mainly in existing buildings: through conversion, adding stories, attic conversions and filling gaps between buildings. The state building code is to be fundamentally revised so that building becomes cheaper without easing off on climate and environmental protection. Building applications should be possible digitally everywhere.

The Greens want more homes in existing buildings. It should be easier to convert houses and add floors. Building should become cheaper. For this, the state's building rules should be simpler. People should be able to file building applications online everywhere.

The Greens want the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to secure land through a state development company or make it available under long-term ground leases. Land should go to the best concept rather than the highest bid, so that municipalities can steer development by social and environmental criteria.

The Greens want to set up a new state company. It should secure land for the state and for towns. Land should go to whoever has the best plan. The highest price should not decide. Empty houses in villages should be used again.

The Greens want to provide more money for subsidized housing and to fund renovation, added floors and conversions on equal terms with new construction. Social housing should stay rent-restricted for longer and thus remain affordable. Municipal housing companies are to be strengthened or newly founded.

The Greens want more low-cost homes. The state should spend more money on them. Renovation and conversion should get money too. Social housing should stay cheap for longer. Cities should be able to set up their own housing companies.

The Greens want existing housing to be used more efficiently. People who want to downsize or split their living space should get state guarantees and loans for the conversion. The party also supports municipal vacancy taxes and vacancy registers.

Some people have more space than they need. They can convert and share their house. The state should lend them money for that. The Greens also want a tax on empty homes. Municipalities should be able to introduce this tax.

The Greens want to subsidize barrier-free conversions even for people without an assessed care level, and to give more support to inclusive and communal forms of housing. New dorm places are to be created for students and trainees. The aim is housing that allows independent living close to home at any age.

The Greens want to fund homes without barriers. This should work even without an official care level. People with and without disabilities should be able to live together. Old and young should be able to share homes. Students and trainees should get more dorm places.

The Greens want the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the cap on rent increases to apply in more cities and districts than today. To that end, local conditions should be assessed at a finer scale. Exceptions for furnished or fixed-term rentals should be removed.

The rent brake limits how much rents may rise. Today it applies in only a few places in the state. The Greens want it in more places. They also want more checks. The same rules should apply to furnished apartments.

The Greens want to expand funding for town centers and bring vacant buildings back into use. In villages they favor renovation and conversion in the core rather than building on new land. Meeting places, village offices and reliable basic services are meant to secure rural life.

The Greens want lively town centers. Towns should get more money for this. Empty shops and houses should be used again. In villages, old houses should be converted instead of building new ones. There should be meeting places, shops and buses.

The SPD wants to fund the "Housing First" model permanently, after pilots at five sites, and extend it to all larger and mid-sized regional centers in the state. Under this approach, homeless people first receive an apartment, with further help following afterward.

Some people have no home. The SPD wants to give them an apartment first. Other help comes after that. This is called "Housing First". So far it exists in five places. In the future, all larger towns should have it.

The SPD wants to keep social housing subsidies at the core of its housing policy and adjust them regularly to demand. Binding social quotas are meant to secure affordable homes for low- and middle-income households. Municipal and cooperative housing as well as communal housing projects are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants to keep paying for low-cost homes. A fixed share of new homes should be low-cost. This is called a social quota. Towns and housing co-ops should be able to build more. People who want to live together in shared projects should get more help.

The SPD wants to significantly increase the supply of affordable accommodation for students and apprentices. More dorms are to be built in university towns with tight housing markets, and places for apprentices where demand is highest.

The SPD wants more low-cost rooms for young people. This is for students and for apprentices. New dorms are planned in Mainz, Koblenz and Trier. Apprentices should also get dorm places.

The SPD wants to combine the rules protecting tenants in a single tenant protection regulation. In addition, tight housing markets are to be identified for individual regions regardless of county borders.

The SPD wants to protect renters. Several rules on this should be in one single regulation. One of them is the rent brake. It limits the rent in new contracts. Homes should stay homes.

The SPD wants to work with municipalities to activate unused building land and create building rights faster. Municipalities are to get more options to act against vacant and decaying buildings, including a stronger right of first refusal.

The SPD wants to make more building land usable. Towns should be able to grant building rights faster. They should be able to do more about empty houses. Empty business buildings should more easily become homes.

The SPD wants to make construction faster, cheaper and climate-friendly. Building standards that do not serve climate neutrality or accessibility are to be reviewed, and for climate protection a building's actual CO₂ emissions should count rather than complex technical rules.

The SPD wants building to be easier and cheaper. Some building rules should be reviewed. People should be able to file building applications online across the state. For the climate, what counts is how much CO₂ a house really causes.

The SPD wants to strengthen town and city centers with a cross-disciplinary approach and look at new ideas to revive them. The state garden shows are to be developed further, and the 2029 Bundesgartenschau (federal garden show) in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley is to be secured financially.

The SPD wants city centers to stay lively. It wants to try new ideas for this. The state garden shows should continue. The state will give money for the federal garden show on the Middle Rhine in 2029.