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Berlin (dpa / bb) - After the end of the Berlin rent cap before the Federal Constitutional Court, the idea is not dead in the view of the Left. “The court did not say that there must be no rent cap.
The court only said that the state of Berlin may not make a rent cap, but that is federal competence, ”said state chairwoman Katina Schubert on Wednesday.
That is why her party now wants to put pressure on the federal level with the aim of the federal government either becoming active itself or giving states and municipalities the opportunity to act independently.
"We need rent regulation that is a bit more effective than what the federal government has presented with the rent brake," emphasized Schubert.
She assumes that the issue of affordable housing will play a major role as a central social issue in the election campaign for the Bundestag and House of Representatives elections on September 26th - and not just in Berlin.
Because the problems are also pressing in other large and increasingly smaller cities.
The left wants to convince its voters in the subject area with a "six-tone", so Schubert.
This includes new construction of really affordable living space, intelligent compression, more rent regulation, a land protection law for building land and further purchases of housing stocks by the state.
In addition, the Left supports the ongoing referendum for the expropriation of large housing groups.
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From Friday to Sunday, the Left decides its program and its state list for the election to the House of Representatives at a party congress. As early as December, the party leadership nominated Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer as the top candidate. He had already led the left in the 2016 election campaign.
Like Lederer, Schubert made it clear that her party wanted to continue the coalition with the SPD and the Left.
The social and ecological redesign of the city that began in 2016 is ultimately a "long-distance run".
In terms of the program, however, she sees “hard conflicts” with the Greens with regard to the future of the S-Bahn - the left wants it to be in municipal rather than private hands.
Schubert expects dissent with the SPD over the strengthening of the public sector called for by her party as a lesson from the pandemic.
The left wants to invest more here and completely abolish the debt brake suspended due to Corona.
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