Overview
- The coalition submitted the framework bill to the Abgeordnetenhaus as its response to the 2021 housing referendum, with a first reading planned for January.
- The text anchors compensation at market value and limits any socialization to narrowly defined, exceptional cases with protections for the city’s budget.
- The measure is framed broadly under public welfare services (Daseinsvorsorge) and avoids naming housing or specific companies.
- CDU and SPD expect a Federal Constitutional Court review, and the law would take effect two years after passage to allow for legal clarification.
- The SPD is drafting an implementing law and signals a focus on regulatory forms of Gemeinwirtschaft over costly buyouts, while the DWE initiative and Greens denounce the framework and pursue a new referendum.