Home-ownership rate

Three answers

Proposals of the left, the centre and the right, summarised by Votara editors from the parties' own documents and from parliamentary business. They are not Votara's opinion.

Left: SP and Greens · Centre: Die Mitte and GLP · Right: SVP and FDP. This grouping is an editorial choice by Votara. Source for the parties' left–right placement: Selects 2023 election study (FORS, in German)

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• Left

  The SP sees a large expansion of the non-profit sector as the «royal road to home ownership»: members of housing cooperatives would be co-owners through their shares and have a say. According to the SP, owning the home one lives in will hardly be affordable any more because of land prices. Dwellings should belong to the people who use them. Communes and cantons would get a right of pre-emption to pass land to non-profit developers.

  Parties: SP

  Written by Votara editors from SP Switzerland, position paper «Wuchermieten stoppen, Immobilienwirtschaft in den Dienst der Menschen stellen!», 28 February 2026 (in German)

• Centre

  The GLP wants to ease buying a home to live in, and to examine the Danish model of long-term mortgages funded by covered bonds and adjusted affordability rules with stricter repayment duties; its postulate 25.4814 (Corina Gredig) asks for a report. Die Mitte asked, in motion 21.4520 (Heidi Z'graggen), to revive direct federal support for home ownership, for example through loans or guarantees that make mortgages easier to afford; the Council of States rejected it in 2023.

  Parties: GLP and Die Mitte

  Written by Votara editors from GLP Switzerland, executive board paper «Wohnbaupapier 25+», 11 November 2025 (in German)

  Also stated in: Postulate 25.4814 by Corina Gredig (GLP), Curia Vista (in German and French)·Motion 21.4520 by Heidi Z'graggen (Die Mitte), Curia Vista (in German and French)

• Right

  According to its programme, anyone who works full time should be able to afford their own home; the SVP calls for abolishing the imputed rental value and keeping pension savings usable for buying a home. After the vote of 28 September 2025 it wrote that without imputed rent, buying a home becomes affordable again. The FDP asked, in postulate 20.3120 (Philippe Nantermod), for a report on loosening access to mortgages; the National Council rejected it in 2021.

  Parties: SVP and FDP

  Written by Votara editors from SVP Switzerland, party programme 2023–2027 (in German)

  Also stated in: SVP Switzerland, press release «Mit der Abschaffung des Eigenmietwerts wird der Mittelstand entlastet», 28 September 2025 (in German)·Postulate 20.3120 by Philippe Nantermod (FDP), Curia Vista (in German and French)