What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on housing?

The CDU wants to keep rents affordable by making construction easier and by funding social housing. According to the platform, affordable housing is part of a good life.

The CDU wants rents to stay affordable. To do this, building should become easier. The CDU also wants to support social housing. These are low-cost homes for people with little money.

The CDU wants to keep funding student housing with state money and create additional dorm places. In addition, applications for BAföG (student financial aid) are to be processed faster.

The CDU wants more dorm places for students. The state should pay part of this. Providers other than the Studentenwerk should also build. Applications for student aid should be handled faster.

To counter high rents, the CDU relies on more housing construction and rejects the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and a rent cap, which it calls blunt and symbolic politics. Instead, reliable and flexible conditions for investment are to apply. The state's housing offensive is to continue.

The CDU wants more homes to be built. It says many homes are the best protection for renters. It rejects a rent brake. That is a rule that limits rents.

The CDU wants to strengthen social housing support for people with low incomes, subsidize new construction and extend rent and occupancy restrictions on existing units. Wohngeld (housing benefit) is to rise. It wants to tackle social housing occupied by households that no longer qualify through pilot projects, without tenants having to move out.

The CDU wants more low-cost homes for people with little money. The state gives grants for this. The housing benefit should go up. People who now earn more may stay in their social housing. Another home should then become social housing instead.

Because building land is becoming scarce, the CDU wants to make better use of existing sites: renovate vacant units, convert commercial and barracks sites, and fill gaps between buildings. To this end it plans a digital register of vacant lots and a building land fund with a loan volume of 100 million euros for municipalities.

Land for building is running short. So the CDU wants to use empty buildings and free plots in towns. A digital list should show these plots. Towns get money to make homes possible there.

Because raw materials are scarce, the CDU wants to rely more on sustainable, reusable building materials and launch a timber construction offensive. Buildings are to switch from fossil to renewable energy sources without overburdening low-income households.

Building materials are scarce. So the CDU wants to build more with wood. Recycled building materials should also be used more often. Homes should run on renewable energy. People with little money should not pay too much for this.

The CDU rejects binding regulations as a way to enforce climate action in housing. Instead, it wants to reach agreements with the housing industry and look at whole neighborhoods rather than individual buildings.

The CDU does not want to force climate action in housing. It wants to make deals with housing companies. The whole neighborhood should count, not each single building.

The CDU wants to help municipalities set up digital building authorities everywhere. The explosive ordnance clearance service is to be strengthened and process requests within three months at most.

The CDU wants building offices everywhere to work digitally. The state should help towns do this. The service that looks for old bombs should get faster. It should take three months at most.

The CDU wants to support new routes to owning a home, such as rent-to-own or cooperative solutions. The Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (the state's development bank) is to make purchases possible even with little equity through its loan programs.

The CDU wants to support new ways to own a home. One example is rent-to-own. You pay rent first and own the home later. The state's bank should help with loans.

The CDU wants to rethink urban planning and reduce land consumption. It proposes funding programs for building plots allocated in small parcels and for new, land-saving forms of construction.

The CDU wants building to use less land. There will be funding for this. Towns should hand out small building plots. Old sites should be used again.

The CDU wants to enable older people to live independently in the surroundings they choose. To do so, funding for housing suited to seniors is to be expanded, and on-demand bus services are to be supported statewide and developed further. The needs of older people are also to count for more in transport and infrastructure.

Older people should decide for themselves where they live. The CDU wants to give more money for suitable housing. Buses that come on request should get better across the state. Streets and paths should suit older people better.

The FDP wants state planning to allow more housing and to lift fixed growth limits for rural municipalities. Municipalities should find it easier to designate commercial and mixed-use zones, and the state should invest in rural infrastructure and digitalization. According to the platform, this would ease pressure on urban housing markets.

The FDP wants more homes in the countryside. Villages should be allowed to grow more. Towns should find it easier to set aside land for businesses. The state should invest in internet and transport there. This should take pressure off the cities.

The FDP wants to keep funding social housing through state grants. Eligibility for a subsidized apartment would be reviewed every 24 months, and Wohngeld (housing benefit) would be adjusted regularly in line with rents.

The state should keep paying for low-cost homes. Every two years, officials should check whether tenants still qualify. Housing benefit should rise along with rents. Housing benefit is money from the state to help pay rent.

The FDP wants municipalities to designate enough building land and to process building applications quickly and with little red tape. Better conditions for private builders should take priority over founding new municipal housing companies.

Towns should provide enough land for building. They should handle building applications quickly. The FDP mainly wants to support private builders. It sees new town-owned housing companies as less useful.

The FDP rejects the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake), caps on rent increases and a ban on converting rental apartments into owner-occupied ones. It sees them as disproportionate interference with property rights and freedom of contract that prevents investment in new housing.

The FDP is against fixed limits on rents. It says such rules scare off builders. Then fewer new homes get built. Landlords should also be allowed to sell their apartments.

The FDP calls for all new and existing laws to be checked for their effect on housing costs. New laws that affect housing should only be passed after such a check.

The FDP wants a "Mieten-TÜV" (rent check). It is a test for laws. It shows whether a law makes housing more expensive. A law should only be passed after this test.

The Greens want to reinstate the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and the ordinance capping rent increases in Schleswig-Holstein. The aim is to secure affordable housing in the long term. Housing subsidy programs are to continue and grow with federal money.

Rents are high in many places. The Greens want to bring back the rent brake. This is a rule that limits rents in new leases. Rent increases will also be limited more strictly again. The state will keep paying for affordable housing.

The Greens want a housing protection law for the state. It is meant to curb speculation with housing, prevent misuse of homes through penalties, and regulate vacation rentals. Vacancy is also to be limited in time.

The Greens want a new law to protect housing. Homes should be used for living. People who use them for other things will face penalties. There will be rules for vacation rentals. Homes will not be allowed to stay empty for long.

The Greens want to set up a state-owned housing company to boost social housing construction. It is to build affordable, climate-friendly homes and also buy and renovate existing homes and rent them out cheaply.

The state will set up its own company to build housing. The company will build affordable homes. It will also buy and repair homes. Then it will rent them out at low prices. The homes will be good for the climate.

The Greens want to develop the state's land fund further and give it more money. Municipalities are to use it to buy land and buildings for social and cooperative housing. Preemption rights are to be used actively.

Towns will find it easier to buy land and buildings. A land fund will get more money for this. A fund is a pot of money for a set purpose. This will create affordable homes owned by the town. Rents will stay low for good.

The Greens want to fight discrimination in the housing search through a round table. Homeless people are to be better protected, including through Housing First projects and reliable access to social benefits.

Some people struggle to find a home because others treat them unfairly. The Greens want to talk about this with landlords, tenants and associations. People without a home will get more protection. They will get a home first. This is called Housing First.

The Greens want to create more dormitory places and open student housing to trainees. For older people, suitable housing projects and home swaps are to be supported so that housing fits people's stage of life.

Students and trainees should be able to live more cheaply. There will be more places in dormitories. Older people should find suitable homes in their neighborhood. People should be able to swap homes more easily. The state will provide money for this.

The Greens want infill development and multistory building to come before new land is designated for construction. They also back tiny house projects and want to look into easing building rules for them.

The Greens want to save land when building. Building should happen inside towns first. Only then should new land be used. Very small houses should also be possible. They are called tiny houses.

The Greens want a state program that gives a 10,000 euro grant for the first purchase or construction of an owner-occupied home. It is meant for people with low and middle incomes. The platform prefers this to an across-the-board cut in the real estate transfer tax.

People who buy their first home to live in will get 10,000 euros. This only applies to people with low or middle incomes. Families with children have a higher income limit. The Greens think this is better than a lower tax on buying property.

The Greens want to launch additional funding programs for accessible homes and to continue the accessibility fund. Inclusive living is to get more weight in housing projects so that people with disabilities and older people can live independently.

People with disabilities and older people should be able to live in their own homes. This requires homes without barriers. The Greens want to provide more money for this. Shared living for people with and without disabilities will also be supported.

The Greens want everything needed for daily life in cities to be reachable within fifteen minutes. Urban planning is to focus more on children, older people and people with disabilities and to promote socially mixed neighborhoods.

In a city, everything important should be 15 minutes away. For example shops, doctors and childcare. Paths should be safe and free of obstacles. Parks, beaches and lakes should be open to everyone.

The Greens want to develop city centers into places for living and culture and to set up a roundtable for this. Its results are to feed into an updated state urban development program.

Many city centers are losing shops and visitors. The Greens want to talk about this with many people involved. There should be a roundtable for it. Local people should have a say.

The Greens want to create new tools in state law that let municipalities act against the conversion of permanent homes into vacation rentals. Popular tourist destinations should also have enough affordable housing, and locals should not be pushed out.

In tourist towns, many homes become vacation rentals. Then local people cannot find homes. The Greens want new state rules. With these rules, towns can protect homes better.

The SPD wants to improve regional housing planning and coordinate bindingly with Hamburg. This is meant to allow more affordable apartments and houses in the Schleswig-Holstein municipalities around Hamburg.

There are too few cheap homes around Hamburg. The SPD wants to plan housing there better. It wants firm agreements with Hamburg. This should lead to more affordable apartments and houses.

The SPD wants to give municipalities more power to intervene in the housing market. This includes building orders that are easier to enforce, a law against the neglect of housing, and social housing quotas for infill development as well.

The SPD wants towns to do more against the housing shortage. Towns should be able to order owners to build more easily. They should also be able to act when homes fall into decay. New buildings should include more social housing.

The SPD wants a state strategy for developing downtowns, town centers and Soziale Stadt (socially integrative city) areas. Centers are meant to be meeting places with leisure, culture, sports and work spaces, not just places to live and shop.

The SPD wants to bring life back to town centers. The state should make a plan for this. Centers should offer more than shops. People should be able to meet, learn and play sports there.

The SPD wants to give the Studentenwerk Schleswig-Holstein (student services organization) more staff and money. The share of publicly subsidized student housing is to reach the national average in the medium term. BAföG (federal student aid) applications are to be processed faster.

The Studentenwerk helps students. The SPD wants to give it more money and more staff. There should be more cheap housing for students. BAföG applications should be done faster. BAföG is money from the government for studying.

The SPD wants to enshrine a right to affordable housing in the state constitution. Much more is to be built in sought-after locations, and nonprofit-oriented housing cooperatives are to be strengthened. The platform calls housing a basic right and affordable housing a central social issue.

The SPD says: housing is a basic right. Everyone needs a home they can pay for. This right should be in the state constitution. More homes should also be built.

The SPD wants to reinstate the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) that the state government abolished and make it permanent. The cap on rent increases is to be lowered in tight housing markets. This is meant to limit rising rents until enough new homes are finished.

Rents are rising fast in some places. The state government got rid of the rent brake. The SPD wants to bring it back. Rents would then be allowed to rise more slowly. This should help until there are more homes.

The SPD wants to launch a state development strategy through 2050 to steer the housing market over the long term. It includes regular forecasts, regional planning, cooperation between cities and surrounding towns, and a coordination office for home swaps.

The SPD wants a long-term plan for housing. The plan should run until 2050. Cities and nearby towns should work together more. People should be able to swap homes more easily. The state should set up an office for this.

The SPD wants to protect and maintain the existing housing stock more strongly. A state ordinance would restrict the conversion of rental apartments into condominiums in tight housing markets, alongside preservation statutes in neighborhoods facing displacement pressure.

The SPD wants to protect renters better. Rental homes should not easily become homes for sale. This should apply where housing is scarce. Repairs to old homes should also go faster.

The SPD wants the state to become an active player in the housing market again and plans to found a state development company for this purpose. Together with municipalities and cooperatives, 100,000 new housing units are to be built within ten years, backed by a push to develop building land.

The SPD wants the state to start its own housing company. This company should help towns. It should also build homes itself if no one else does. In ten years, 100,000 new homes should be built. Building offices should work digitally and faster.

The SPD wants to reshape city centers and turn unused office space and empty storefronts into apartments. This is meant to create additional housing while bringing life back to downtown areas.

Many cities have empty offices and shops. The SPD wants to turn them into homes. That creates more housing. It also brings more life to city centers.

The SPD wants to raise the stock of publicly subsidized housing to 120,000 units over the long term. To get there, at least 4,000 apartments with occupancy restrictions are to be created each year through new construction and renovation, with more budget funds made available.

The SPD wants more social housing. These are low-cost homes supported by the state. At least 4,000 should be added each year. In the end there should be 120,000. The state should spend more money on this.

The SPD wants to give municipalities with tight housing markets a broad right of first refusal that lets them buy properties at a capped price. A state ordinance would also allow them to use the tools of the federal Baulandmobilisierungsgesetz (Building Land Mobilization Act).

Towns should be able to buy land and buildings more easily. They should get the first chance to buy when something is sold. The price should be capped. This should lead to more affordable homes. The federal government and the railway should also offer towns more cheap land.

The SPD wants to make it easier for young families to buy a home and will examine public support for rent-to-own models. Municipalities are also to be able to designate building land for young people's housing where simpler building standards apply.

Many young families do not have enough money for their own home. The SPD wants to check whether the state can help with rent-to-own. With rent-to-own, you pay rent and buy the home step by step. Small, cheap homes should be built quickly for young people. Simpler building rules should apply there.

The SPD wants to create a housing oversight and housing protection law. It would let municipalities act against deteriorating housing and have serious defects in rental apartments fixed, with owners bearing the cost.

Some landlords let homes fall apart. The SPD wants a new law against that. Towns should then be able to have bad defects repaired. The owners have to pay for it.

The SSW wants to reform the property transfer tax through an initiative in the Bundesrat. The goal is relief mainly for first-time home buyers and families.

People who buy a house or apartment pay a tax. It is called the property transfer tax. The SSW wants to change this tax. Families should pay less. So should people buying for the first time.

The SSW speaks of a human right to housing and wants the state to help municipalities build public and social housing. This includes more investment, a housing protection law, an optional charge on tenants who no longer qualify for subsidized housing, and support for municipal housing companies. Young families buying a first home should get relief from the real estate transfer tax.

The SSW wants more affordable homes. The state should help cities and towns build them. Towns should be able to step in fast when housing conditions are very bad. Homeless people should get a home without conditions. Families should pay less tax on their first own home.