Green-chief Habeck expropriations as a means against the housing holds, in principle, possible. SPD-Boss Nahles expropriations do not, in contrast, considers appropriate. This lasted for years and made the “no apartment”. the

In the debate on the capping of rising Rents and the creation of new housing in the Green-Federal Chairman Robert Habeck holds in principle, expropriation is conceivable. In the Welt am Sonntag he suggested that the Federal government should order the Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) immediately, to give all the land to the Federal real estate company with reasonable prices to the local community if this undertook to establish social housing. He also called for more use against land speculators.

If the measures, such as a Baugebot on the Basis of the building law, owners of Layouts bring sun broke for the building, “as necessary consequences of the expropriation,” said Habeck. “The basic law provides for such expropriations to the General welfare explicitly. It would be absurd if we apply it only to build new highways, but not to the rampant housing shortage to proceed,” said Habeck.

nationwide had demonstrated on Saturday tens of thousands against rising Rents. In Berlin, a unique people, began at the same time, request for the expropriation of large housing corporations.

SPD Leader Andrea Nahles spoke out in contrast against expropriation as an Instrument against rent explosion and the housing shortage. “I understand the anger at housing corporations that want to squeeze every penny out of the tenants out,” she said of the Bild am Sonntag. But expropriation takes years and create a “no apartment”. The compensation due billion in payments from the state were missing for the urgently needed new construction of public housing companies.