Return Lid: Initiative Wants to Enforce Cost Rental and Introduce Rent Control

This is what the Tenants' Association wants to change with one initiative. The House Owners' Association on the other side warns with drastic words of the consequences of the popular demand. Wants to enforce the cost rent now on the constitutional level: Michael Töngi speaks on Friday at the launch of the rental price initiative on the Federal Square. (Bern, 16 May 2025) picture: Anthony Anex / KEYSTONEInterests in the Tenants' Association on th…

The Tenants' Association (MV) has presented a new popular initiative: The collection of signatures for the so-called "Rent Price Initiative" is scheduled to begin in June.

This Friday, the Association de défense des tenants presented its new popular initiative in Bern, which aims to fight against unfair rents by means of state control. The real estate community denounces a measure deemed counter-productiveBetween a massive increase in rents and a shortage of housing, housing becomes a calvary for many Swiss, and more only in large urban centres.For Asloca, the situation is no longer tenable. On Friday afternoon, i…

With a constitutional article, the Swiss Tenants' Association wants to deal with abusively too high rents.

The law forbids excessive rent rates, and yet they are widespread, which is what the tenant association wants to change with an initiative. On the other hand, the house owner association warns with drastic words of the consequences of the popular demand.

Tenant households pay 360 francs per month in excess of their rent, denounces the Asloca, the Swiss Tenant Association. On Friday, it launches a federal popular initiative to control the increase in rents.