What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on housing?

The AfD wants to offer young parents a subsidized loan for a home of their own. Part of the debt would be forgiven for each child born afterward. The goal is for more German families in Saxony-Anhalt to own their homes.

The AfD wants to help parents buy a home. They should get a cheap loan. For each new child, they have to pay back less. This way, more German families should own a home.

The AfD wants to secure the preservation of older buildings in Saxony-Anhalt's town centers. The platform proposes loans on special terms, fewer building rules, and a training program for do-it-yourselfers. It argues that rising construction costs combined with low rents make renovation unprofitable.

The AfD wants to save old buildings in towns. Owners should get cheap loans for repairs. There should be fewer building rules. Owners should be able to take courses. There they learn to do simple repair work themselves.

The AfD wants the state to once again match federal funds for social housing one-to-one and to provide money for housing and urban development programs. This is meant above all to let municipal housing companies renovate and create affordable, low-barrier apartments.

The AfD wants to spend more money on low-cost housing. The state should pay as much as the federal government does. Municipal housing companies should use the money to renovate apartments. There should be more barrier-free apartments for older people.

The BSW wants public investment to create significantly more social and non-profit housing, plus dormitory places for students and trainees. Publicly owned apartments and land should no longer be privatized unless they are for the buyer's own use.

The BSW wants more affordable homes to be built. The state should pay for this. Public housing should not be sold to companies. Students and trainees should also get more dorm places.

The BSW wants to effectively limit rent increases and considers a nationwide rent cap a suitable tool. Purchases of large housing portfolios by profit-driven investors are to be restricted.

Rents should no longer rise so fast. The BSW supports a rent cap for all of Germany. A rent cap is an upper limit on rents. Big investors should not be allowed to buy so many apartments.

The BSW wants to make building faster, simpler and cheaper without compromising on quality and safety. Owner-occupied housing is to be promoted; for young families, property tax on it is to be eliminated entirely.

Building should become faster and cheaper. Building permits should be available online. There should be fewer new building rules. Young families should pay no property tax on their own home.

The BSW wants uniform statewide minimum requirements for what housing and heating costs count as reasonable for people on social benefits. So far, each county and independent city sets this on its own. According to the platform, this leads to regional differences and legal uncertainty.

People on social benefits also get money for rent and heating. Each county decides how much is reasonable. The BSW wants the same minimum rules across the state. Everyone should be treated the same way. There should also be fewer lawsuits.

The BSW wants to use affordable vacant buildings to keep or attract creative professionals and university graduates. Projects combining living and working space are to be funded. Added to this are trial-residency stipends and "bridge years" at universities.

Many buildings in Saxony-Anhalt stand empty. The BSW wants to use them for artists and young people. They should be able to live and work there. Artists from big cities should live there free for six months as a trial. Graduates may keep using university workshops.

The CDU advocates that no real estate transfer tax be charged on the first purchase of an owner-occupied home in rural areas. This is meant above all to make it easier for young families to buy their own home.

People who buy a house pay a tax. It is called the real estate transfer tax. The CDU wants to drop this tax for a first home in the countryside. The buyers must live in the house themselves. This should help young families.

The CDU wants to make buying a home easier, especially for families and working people. It rejects rent caps and expropriations. Instead, the Baukindergeld (a home-buying grant for families) is to return, and social housing and renovations are to be subsidized.

The CDU wants more people to own a house or apartment. It rejects a rent cap. It also rejects expropriations. Families should get the Baukindergeld again. That is money from the state for buying a home.

The CDU wants to make building permits simpler and faster and help municipalities set up fully digital building authorities. Vacant lots, old industrial sites and gaps between buildings are to be put to new use.

The CDU wants building permits to come faster. Building offices should work digitally. Empty land and old factories should be used again. This should create more housing.

The Greens want to secure affordable housing with rent caps, more dorms for apprentices and students, and social housing construction. Communal forms of housing are to be supported because the party regards housing as a basic right.

The Greens want housing to stay affordable. Rents should have an upper limit. There should be more dorms for apprentices and students. The state should get more social housing built.

The Greens regard housing as a human right and want homeless people to be offered a permanent home first ("Housing First"). They also support a statewide pause on evictions for rent arrears in publicly owned housing.

The Greens say everyone should have a home. People without a home should get a fixed place to live first. This is called "Housing First." People with rent debts should not be evicted from public housing.

The Greens want existing buildings to take priority over new construction and want to turn the building code into a "conversion code." Renovation subsidies are to be simplified and made accessible to low-income households.

The Greens want to renovate old buildings rather than build new ones. Building rules should make this easier. People with little money should also get support for renovation. The state should give guarantees for them.

The Greens want to upgrade city and town centers, reduce vacancies and promote neighborhoods with little car traffic. Urban planning is to take account of short distances, safety and the needs of different groups.

The Greens want lively town centers. Empty shops should get new uses. There should be fewer cars in neighborhoods. Important places should be reachable in 15 minutes. People should have a say early in planning.

The Greens want to secure and broaden municipalities' right of first refusal on property in order to prevent land speculation and support affordable housing. Against long-term vacancy, municipalities would get graduated tools, up to an easier takeover of properties.

Municipalities should more often be allowed to buy land first. The Greens want to stop speculation with land this way. If a building stays empty for a long time, municipalities should be able to step in. As a last step, they can take over the building more easily.

The Left wants to fund the conversion of homes to suit older people so that they can live independently. It also calls for simpler housing benefit applications, home swaps and assisted living options in rural areas.

Older people often need homes without obstacles. The Left wants to give money for remodeling. Applying for housing benefit should be easier. Older people should be able to swap their home for a smaller one. There should be more assisted living in rural areas.

The Left wants to designate tight housing markets by state ordinance so that a Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) can apply in the cities. At the same time, non-profit housing providers are to be strengthened because, in the party's view, housing must be affordable, safe and as accessible as possible.

The Left wants rents in the cities to rise less. For this, the state should make a rent brake possible. This is a rule that limits rents in new leases. Landlords who do not aim for profit should get more help.

The Left wants state housing subsidies to go exclusively to social rental housing whose rent and occupancy restrictions never expire. Home ownership would no longer be subsidized. The platform argues that such restrictions have almost entirely lapsed in the state and that prices have risen as a result.

The Left wants to spend housing subsidies only on social housing. These homes should stay cheap forever. There should be no more subsidies for buying a home. Nobody should lose their home through eviction.

The Left wants to make applying for Wohngeld (housing benefit) much simpler and set a six-week deadline for decisions. Tenants would also bear fewer costs: the modernization surcharge would be abolished and property tax could no longer be passed on to them. According to the platform, only about a third of those eligible currently receive the benefit.

The Left wants to make it easier to apply for housing benefit. The office should decide within six weeks. Tenants should no longer pay for building upgrades. Tenants should also no longer pay the property tax. A fund should pay heating costs for poor tenants.

The Left wants to set up a state-owned housing construction company. It would complement cooperatives and municipal housing companies and create homes that stay permanently under social housing restrictions.

The Left wants the state to start its own housing company. It should build cheap homes. These homes should stay social housing for good. The company should work together with cooperatives and cities.

The Left wants to add considerably more state money to the federal "Junges Wohnen" (housing for young people) program so that apprentices also get dorm places. The platform notes that fewer than ten percent of students get a place and that no new dorm rooms have been built since 2013.

The Left wants more dorms for students and apprentices. The state should give much more money for this. The rooms should stay reserved for young people for good. The platform says there are too few places today.

The Left wants to fund a new urban redevelopment program through 2035 to reduce vacancies and upgrade existing buildings. It favors reuse, moderate densification, and climate-neutral construction, and rejects new building on undeveloped land at the edge of towns. A law would penalize the misuse of housing for other purposes.

The Left wants a new program to rebuild cities through 2035. Empty buildings should be used again or torn down. Old apartment blocks should become nicer. People who misuse homes should be punished. Misuse means a home is not used for living.

The SPD wants to expand social housing, especially for older people, people with disabilities, families, students and trainees. Municipal and cooperative housing companies are to remain part of public services. Heating and electricity are also to stay affordable.

The SPD wants to fund more low-cost homes. This is mainly for older people, families, students and trainees. Housing companies owned by towns should not be forced to sell. Heating and power should stay affordable.

The SPD wants to shorten planning and permitting procedures and free construction from what it sees as excessive bureaucracy. Alongside this, towns and villages are to be kept lively through urban development funding and local shops.

The SPD wants building to go faster. Offices should check applications more quickly. There should be less paperwork. Towns and villages should also get help. They should keep shops and meeting places.