Overview

• The SPD parliamentary group officially released a 27-page draft law to regulate housing and essential services under Article 15 of the Basic Law.
• Under the proposal, Berlin could impose a five-year price cap on all landlords and extend oversight to energy, water and heat provision to ensure basic public welfare.
• CDU leader Dirk Stettner insists the measure is intended only to establish a legal framework for market interventions and rejects any form of rent control.
• Lawmakers plan to submit the bill to the Abgeordnetenhaus by mid-December, with a mandatory two-year delay before it can take effect.
• The initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen has denounced the proposal as legally unsound and warned of a likely constitutional challenge.