After the coalition of the Union and the SPD reached a draft outline for a new heating law, the SPD’s young‑politics wing criticized the draft for lacking safeguards for renters.
Juso chair Philipp Türmer told ntv on Thursday that the agreement fails to make the protection against cost shifting clear and binding-a social‑political negligence he said. He stressed that tenants should not foot the bill for landlords’ savings measures.
The government coalition proposes to allow the installation of new gas‑ and oil boilers again, provided that the fuel used is exclusively petroleum or natural gas and that at least ten per cent of it comes from alternative sources. Experts and industry groups warn that these alternative fuels are more expensive, and that rising CO₂ pricing is expected in the coming years.
Türmer argued that if landlords are permitted to make choices that predictably increase ongoing costs, the next surge in service‑charge bills is politically pre‑planned. Should that happen, the burden would fall on tenants. He called for “hard guidelines” including a binding rent‑cost protection, clear rules against passing costs onto renters, and genuine subsidies that reach ordinary people. He warned that otherwise the coalition would only deepen the housing‑crisis, and that rising warm rents already threaten to displace more residents from their neighbourhoods.
