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Housing

This area covers the supply of dwellings, rents, building procedures, home ownership and second homes.

Sub-problems

  • Vacancy rate

    Headline indicator: Vacancy rate on 1 June (% of the housing stock)

    0.93% (2026)

  • New-lease rents and wages

    Headline indicator: Asking rents for new leases relative to wages

    No reliable indicator yet No reliable estimate

  • Building permits and objections

    Headline indicator: Duration of building-permit procedures for housing

    No reliable indicator yet No reliable estimate

  • Home-ownership rate

    Headline indicator: Home-ownership rate (share of households living in their own home)

    No reliable indicator yet No reliable estimate

  • Second homes

    Headline indicator: Share of second homes by commune

    No reliable indicator yet No reliable estimate

Source: OFS/BFS — Empty dwellings count (data 1984–2026, source checked on )

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Related federal votes

Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.

Each line is one vote, from 1848 to 2026: accepted rejected

Accepted: 10 of 27

The 10 most recent of 27 past votes

  1. Cantonal taxation of second properties Accepted
  2. Termination due to personal need (tenancy law) Rejected
  3. Conditions for subletting Rejected
  4. Initiative «More affordable homes» Rejected
  5. Initiative «Safe housing for the elderly» Rejected
  6. Initiative «Access to home ownership thanks to home savings» Rejected
  7. Initiative «For tax-privileged home savings» Rejected
  8. Initiative «Stop the unconstrained building of secondary residences» Accepted
  9. Steuerpaket Rejected
  10. Änderung des Mietrechts Rejected

Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing

Citizen urgency and parliament attention

Parliamentary business
2.4% of 8,496 business items
Agora daily votes
fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll

Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Raumplanung und Wohnungswesen.

405 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.

Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.

Agora votes are not representative of the population.

All areas compared · How the subjects are assigned to the areas

Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)

Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data