Overview

• Die Linke presented a five-point Sofortprogramm Wohnen that would set up a Taskforce Wohnen, a 100‑person Landesamt für Mieterschutz, Mietpreisprüfstellen in all twelve districts, and a special prosecutor for rental offenses.
• The Taskforce would trigger prosecutorial action when charged rents are roughly 50% above the local comparison level, defining such cases as criminal overcharging.
• Party leaders cited their Mietwucher-App with 72,000 uses and about 50,000 suspected cases, including roughly 3,000 reports to districts and 93 of 98 city-checked cases showing unlawfully high rents.
• The plan includes a Vergesellschaftungsbehörde to pursue the 2021 referendum on expropriating large landlords and proposes using state housing firms as trustees to return illegally vacant homes to the market.
• Leaders urged SPD and Greens to back immediate enforcement steps, announced a citywide door-to-door push, and pointed to Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg’s first fines and a court case as examples requiring Senate support.