Acting SPÖ club boss Philip Kucher wants rents to be frozen until 2026 and then capped at a maximum of two percent. In addition, he spoke out on Saturday in the Ö1 series “Im Journal zu Gast” in favor of allowing a loan interest rate of three percent for “Häuslbauer” loans in the future.
Only on Friday did Kucher criticize in a broadcast that prices in Austria ‘continue to rise’. The SPÖ therefore demands a course correction. “If hundreds of wrong-way drivers come towards you on the highway, at some point you have to realize that you are driving in the wrong direction.”
Two weeks ago, the SPÖ called for “an end to fixed-term leases and the freezing of all rents” until the end of 2025 and “an adjustment of up to two percent per year thereafter”. The upcoming National Council elections will also be a landmark decision “between affordable housing for all people or a republic with record profits for banks and apartment building owners,” Kucher said in a broadcast on Wednesday.
Internal debates ‘damage the SPÖ’
Within the party, Kucher regretted the recent increase in discussions: “This is definitely harmful for the SPÖ.” Different opinions obviously don’t help. But everyone agrees that the country needs to be made more social. He is “perhaps a bit old-fashioned, but is in favor of talking less about each other and more with each other.”
Source: Krone
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