Overview

• Under the draft Sicher-Wohnen-Gesetz, private owners with 50 or more apartments would reserve up to 35% of annually vacated flats for low- and middle-income tenants at affordable rents.
• The proposal tightens tenant protections by making evictions for owner move-in harder and by curbing removals that risk homelessness.
• The bill seeks stricter rules against misuse, demolition and prolonged vacancy to reduce speculative losses from the rental stock.
• A rent and housing cadastre and a new Landesamt für Wohnungswesen would monitor compliance and increase market transparency.
• Linke cites shrinking social housing in Berlin—about 85,000 units with half losing binding by 2030—versus roughly 1.16 million eligible households, while noting municipal companies already operate with a social quota.