Overview

• SPD leaders plan to introduce the detailed draft to the Abgeordnetenhaus by mid-December, but ongoing disputes with the CDU have stalled agreement on final wording and legislative timing.
• Under Article 15 of the Basic Law, the bill would transfer land, natural resources and production means into communal ownership.
• It calls for a new Vergesellschaftungsbehörde to manage transfers and sets compensation for owners below market value.
• Mayor Kai Wegner has ruled out any expropriations, warning they would undermine investor confidence and threaten Berlin’s economic stability.
• Raed Saleh argues the law would provide a regulatory framework to cap rents and reshape the housing market without necessarily resorting to expropriations.