(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to build 400,000 new apartments every year as head of a new government. This includes 100,000 social housing, he said in Munich. In the next five years, rents should hardly rise, promised Scholz.

The Greens want to have an additional million social housing built within the next ten years. According to a policy document, apartments should become more affordable. Green co-chairman Robert Habeck wants to set up protection against conversion into condominiums, according to media reports.