Cabinet decides on rental price brake: Tenant in danger?

Cabinet decides on rental price brake: Tenant in danger?

In a decisive measure, the Federal Cabinet in Berlin decided to extend the rental price brake by the end of 2029. This regulation protects tenants from excessive rents in the event of reimbursement, since the rent may only be a maximum of ten percent above the local comparison rent. However, there is already resistance in the Bundestag: The FDP and the Union seem to defend themselves against consent, which endangers the future of this important tenant protection instrument. As Radio Ennepe Ruhr , the Union parties would only like to be used on February 23, 2025 on a possible new version of the rental price brake discuss.

The original expression of the rental price brake expires at the end of 2025, and the traffic light government failed to get an extension in the Bundestag in good time. Justice Minister Volker Wissing, formerly FDP, presented a draft law that provides for a regulation that also adapts the exceptions for new buildings. In the future, these should only apply to apartments that were rented for the first time after October 1, 2019. This is reminiscent of Tagesschau , but also underlines that without a quick action, the Bundestag may no longer be able to decide on the rental price brake before the elections.

looking for support

The SPD calls on the Union to agree to the draft law before the election, while many federal states are planning their own initiatives for rental price brakes. For example, Lower Saxony as well as Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would also like to develop a draft law that should secure the rental price brake by 2029. The construction ministers of the affected federal states warn of dramatic rent increases should the regulations expire. "The big social issue remains affordable living space," says the appeal from Hamburg, which other politicians also support. These were concerned about the fact that without the rental price brake tenants, especially families with children, could be replaced by rising rents from their traditional districts.