Irmhild Boßdorf, Member of the European Parliament and ESN coordinator in the HOUS Committee, stated:
“This is a frontal attack on every ordinary citizen. The SPD wants to decide who is still allowed to buy a house and who is not. What counts is no longer achievement, nor the rule of law, but having the right opinion.
This is the first step towards a state that sorts its citizens: the loyal on one side, the unwanted on the other.
Particularly perfidious is the fact that even the security authorities are to be involved in this ideological vetting. The Federal Criminal Police Office and the domestic intelligence service are supposed to provide data so that municipalities can filter out unwanted buyers. A state that brings intelligence services into property purchases has crossed every line.
This proposal raises considerable questions under European law and stands in clear tension with the property rights guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as well as with the prohibition of discrimination. In addition, there is a threat to the free movement of capital in the European single market if property purchases are to be prevented in future on the basis of political assessments.
While families cannot find housing and can barely afford property anymore, this government is busy pushing politically undesirable people out of the market. That is not housing policy. It is power politics.
Today it affects political opponents. Tomorrow it will affect everyone who speaks up. We say this clearly: property is a fundamental right, not a privilege for the conformist. This draft law does not need to be revised. It needs to be stopped. Immediately.”
