Overview

• The plan targets private and corporate landlords with 50 or more units, requiring up to 35% of annually vacated apartments to be let at affordable rents to low- and middle-income households.
• The proposal would make evictions, including for owner-occupation claims, and removals into homelessness significantly harder.
• Rules against misuse, demolition and prolonged vacancy would be tightened to limit displacement and speculative practices.
• A rent and housing register and a new state housing authority would be created to improve transparency and enforce the social quota.
• Linke leaders say the legally novel approach is defensible under Länder housing-market powers, with a formal draft due within days as Berlin’s social housing stock falls to about 85,000 and eligibility reaches roughly 1.16 million households.