Sicher Wohnen in Berlin - Der Markt regelt es nicht!

Secure housing - who doesn't want it? But: Berlin is still deep in a housing and rent crisis. Rents are being increased and increased, displacement, usurious rents, too little affordable new construction; all in all, a market that puts profits above the human right to housing. Time for a critical assessment - and to see how the possible (and the impossible) can be achieved!

At the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's housing and rental policy conference in cooperation with the Left Party parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives on May 29 and 30, 2026, we want to discuss the housing and rental situation in Berlin. On the one hand, we want to take stock together of how left-wing and progressive housing and rental policy can be effective: What has been successful? What instruments have been fought for and introduced - from the "Berlin" rent cap to more participation and dialog with those affected and initiatives to the rent freeze for municipal housing companies, etc.? On the other hand, we want to dare to look ahead: How can we secure affordable and affordable housing against market logic? How can socially just, progressive left-wing solutions such as the socialization of large housing stocks and a municipal housing construction programme be implemented? We will present the concept of a rent cap for municipal housing companies as well as tools and measures such as home swaps, rent-seeking apps, initiatives against forced evictions and demolitions or cooperative models for the housing and rent crisis - together with the urban community.

And above all, the draft of the "Secure Housing Act" of the left-wing parliamentary group in the House of Representatives will also be discussed: The law calls for statutory social quotas and obliges commercial landlords with at least 50 apartments to allocate an increasing proportion of vacant apartments to lower-income households at capped rents. Landlords with more than 1,000 apartments must reserve an additional 10 percent of the social quota for homeless people. A rent cap is also required. This office is to monitor and enforce compliance with the rules. In total, around 840,000 apartments across Berlin are affected by the new regulations. In addition, there will be more transparency on the real estate market, a de facto demolition freeze and a new state office to enforce the rules. And a de facto demolition freeze is intended to prevent the destruction of existing affordable housing.

This conference will not only analyze, but also discuss the political effectiveness of tenant protection and ideas for affordable housing, present practical instruments and measures and put them up for discussion. For a city in which housing is not a commodity. Because the market does not regulate it!

Among many others:
Elif Eralp, Niklas Schenker, Matthias Bernt, Andrea Dieck & Firdes Firat, Caren Lay, Katrin Lompscher, Jonathan Diesselhorst, Katalin Gennburg, Andrej Holm, Christoph Trautvetter, Wibke Werner

A conference organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in cooperation with the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Berlin House of Representatives.

All information here: https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/58ZSQ