Election program: Jusos demand a assure from Scholz for reasonable shared rooms | EUROtoday

The Jusos are pushing for tighter rental costs within the election program. “The crisis on the housing market is the social crisis of our young generation,” mentioned Juso boss Philipp Türmer to the journal “Spiegel”. We must “make it so that students and trainees can get a shared room in every German city for a maximum of 400 euros”.

The youth affiliation selected the “WG Guarantee” at its federal congress on the finish of November. Now, in keeping with the desires of the Jusos, it must also be included within the SPD’s election program. On January eleventh, the Social Democrats need to formally crown Olaf Scholz as candidate for chancellor at their celebration convention and resolve on their program.

Housing is “a poverty trap,” mentioned Türmer. According to a two-sided idea, his affiliation is looking for an enormous growth of pupil and trainee dormitories and for the higher restrict to be enforced through a web-based platform. If the quantity of the online hire violates the hire cap, the platform ought to implement a discount. If the hire is greater than 400 euros even after the adjustment, the younger tenants ought to obtain a subsidy from the state.