Housing: Enabling access to affordable housing for everyone Over the past decades, economic dynamism has brought Luxembourg and its inhabitants considerable prosperity. However, due to a lack of policy measures to effectively accompany this growth, the country is now facing a housing shortage that has been worsening for several years and threatens to weaken social cohesion. Housing prices, which are...

Easy access to student housing plays an important role for the attractiveness of a university. Our deputies André Bauler and Gilles Baum asked the responsible ministers about the current and future supply of student housing in Luxembourg.

DP MPs Max Hahn and Claude Lamberty have heard that no subsidy for a heat pump has been paid out by the ministry yet, because there is almost no heat pump on the market that meets the set noise limit values. They therefore wanted to know from the relevant minister whether this is true and according to which criteria the limit values were defined.

On the 'Tribune Libre' radio programme this week, our Deputy Secretary Anne Daems spoke about the general guidelines with which the DP will go into the municipal elections on 11 June.

Several ‘café rooms’ have recently had to close due to a lack of hygiene and safety observed in those facilities. How many units of housing of that type have been lost in the northern canton and what measures are being taken to improve the situation? These and other questions were asked by our MP André Bauler to the Minister of Housing.

Is the Lex Koller law compatible with the Luxembourg constitution and with the principle of free circulation of capital in the European internal market? DP MP André Bauler addressed these and other questions to the Minister of Justice Sam Tanson.

The MP André Bauler asked the Ministry of the Interior about the B6, the property tax on building land.

A new housing project is to be set up on the site of the Cité militaire in Diekirch, but even though the PAP has been voted for some time, not much seems to be happening on the ground. DP MP André Bauler asked what the reasons were.

Most of the police service housing in Colmar-Berg is currently uninhabited. DP MP André Bauler therefore asked the competent minister if they could not accommodate refugees.

Modular constructions on rented building land could quickly create additional housing. DP MP Max Hahn asked how this model is currently being implemented and how it could be further promoted.

In Luxembourg there are 5018 hectares of undeveloped land within the perimeter, of which 3750 hectares are in a residential or mixed zone. How many of these plots could be developed directly? And for how many a PAP needs to be voted first? DP MP Max Hahn asked the responsible minister some questions.

After the Minister of economy's recent announcements on housing agencies' commissions, DP MP André Bauler wanted to know further details.

In his Tribune Libre on the radio this week, Max Hahn spoke about the government's additional measures against the lack of affordable housing.

In the first FutureLab of the DP, several of our members - who are politically active at various levels - discussed housing. How to get a handle on the soaring housing prices, and what new tracks one should look at regarding housing and construction.

Again and again we hear that the mandatory archaeological assessment requires a lot of time and that the procedures thus contribute to the long waiting times for construction projects. DP Members of Parliament Max Hahn and André Bauler have therefore asked whether this is the case and what can be done to change that situation.

Thirteen years after the first Housing Pact, the Chamber of Deputies recently voted in favour of Housing Pact 2.0

André Bauler, deputy of the DP, has learned that the house of the writer Max Goergen, which belongs to the State and is listed by Sites and monuments, is currently unoccupied. This is why he wanted to know from the responsible ministers what the plans were for the house and why nothing has happened so far.

There are already housing projects in CFL passenger buildings. But what is the potential across the country? Are there other projects planned? DP MPs André Bauler and Max Hahn requested further information from the relevant minister.

At the moment it is common practice for most real estate constructors to show prices calculated on the basis of the reduced VAT rate of 3%. However, this poses a risk to consumers. In 2019, the Minister for Consumer Protection and the Minister for Housing announced that they would consider standardising the listed prices. DP MPs André Bauler and Max Hahn asked what conclusions had been drawn in...

DP MPs André Bauler and Max Hahn asked the responsible minister under which criteria the SNHBM buys real estate and why various plots of land and buildings have not yet been valorised.