Overview

• Die Linke officially put forward a requirement to integrate communal swimming pools, including rooftop installations, into all new municipal housing developments.
• The party is demanding a model project to install rooftop pools on major housing estates linked to social infrastructure and neighborhood meeting spaces.
• Lawmakers cited Vienna’s Wohnpark Alterlaa and Triiiple towers as examples where tenants fund pool and sauna operations through their monthly operating-cost fees.
• Die Linke pledged to back demonstrations for Spree river bathing and supports establishing a river pool in Mitte alongside measures to improve water quality.
• All measures are framed within the Left’s Rote Metropole 2040 strategy to enhance Berlin’s social infrastructure and international appeal.