The CDU aims to ease the housing market crisis by scrapping construction regulations and promoting home ownership. On Friday evening, delegates at the party’s federal convention in Stuttgart unanimously approved a key policy proposal submitted by the party’s federal executive board. The package of measures is designed to speed up administrative processes, shorten approval procedures, ensure reliable financing, and reduce secondary construction costs.
“As the Christian Democratic Union, we want to build,” said Ina Scharrenbach during the presentation of the proposal. The resolution states that cutting regulations and removing obstacles should primarily make both new construction and the purchase of housing easier.
Home ownership is “not a luxury, but a central goal of a policy that stands for social security and societal stability,” the document continues. It adds that issues related to construction and housing also concern “questions of social cohesion, trust in the state, and trust in our social market economy with its promise of performance, prosperity, and upward mobility.”
The adopted measures are intended to make building and housing affordable. This applies equally to rental apartments and privately owned homes.
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