Vienna under pressure: Rental price increase threatens despite housing shortage!

Vienna under pressure: Rental price increase threatens despite housing shortage!

In the current discussion about rental prices in Vienna, the freedoms criticize the rental price brake presented by the federal government and coalition partner SPÖ. FPÖ chairman Dominik Nepg describes this measure as inadequate, since it only serves as a weak instrument to regulate rental prices. He demands that rents in the municipal building should be significantly reduced. According to Nepp, Wiener benefits from the rising rental prices with its 220,000 apartments, and the municipal apartment tenants remained the major losers of this real estate policy. "The SPÖ continues to sink the municipal apartment tenants," says Nepp, while he points out the important claims that are not met by the rental price brake. writes Apa-Oth

From April 2025, however, rents in Vienna will also be increased again, since the rental price brake does not apply to some rental groups. In 2024, the rent increases for guideline and category rents were exposed to, but this regulation is no longer necessary. In the future, the rent increase will be limited to a maximum of five percent, while the increase will be adapted to the average inflation rate of the previous year. advised. The category interest rate also only applies to older rental contracts and does not affect all tenants. Thus there could hardly be any noticeable improvements for some of the population, while rents increase as a whole.

This situation creates resentment, especially at a time when many Viennese fight with the high living costs. The FPÖ sees its criticism confirmed and demands more profound measures to relieve the tenants. The current politics, according to Nepp, burden the population and ultimately come too late.