Housing runs through the whole 2023–2028 legislature, from the debate on the government programme in November 2023 to the first reading of the bill on the Observatoire de l'habitat in June 2026. The Chamber debated the price of buying and renting, the temporary tax package for the construction sector, the purchase of affordable dwellings by the state, the taxation of vacant dwellings and building land, and the rules for residential leases. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 12 March 2024, during the interpellation on the government's new housing measures, Alex Donnersbach criticised the previous government's record on housing and stated that prices have doubled.
\n\n\nNo zéng Joer Regierungsbedeelegung ass d’Situatioun am Logement méi schlëmm wéi 2013. D’Präisser sinn duebel sou héich an et ass haut nach méi schwéier, un e Logement ze kommen, wéi dat deemools de Fall war.
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After ten years in government the housing situation is worse than in 2013. Prices are twice as high and it is harder today to get a home than it was then.
\nSitting of 12 March 2024, Alex Donnersbach, CSV
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the state of the nation, Laurent Zeimet argued that public housing construction and private partnerships must not be treated as opposites.
\n\n\nAn dofir däerfe mer ëffentleche Wunnengsbau a privat Partnerschaften net als Géigesätz behandelen. Mir brauche béides.
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And so we must not treat public housing construction and private partnerships as opposites. We need both.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Laurent Zeimet, CSV
\nOn 23 November 2023, on the first day of the debate on the government programme, Gilles Baum stated his own demand for public investment in housing construction.
\n\n\nDe Staat muss massiv – massiv! – an de Bau vun ëffentleche Wunnengen investéieren.
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The state must invest massively - massively! - in the construction of public housing.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the state of the nation, Gilles Baum stated that housing is and remains the biggest problem for many people, as the polls show.
\n\n\nDe gréisste Problem fir vill Leit hei am Land, an dat weisen all d’Sondagen, dat weisen d’Sondagë reegelméisseg, ass a bleift de Logement.
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The biggest problem for many people in this country, and all the polls show this, the polls show it regularly, is and remains housing.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 23 November 2023, on the first day of the debate on the government programme, Taina Bofferding contrasted her party's position on the rent law with the government's.
\n\n\nMee just mam Ënnerscheed: Dir stellt Iech op d’Säit vun de Proprietären a mir stellen eis op d’Säit vun de Locatairen.
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But with just one difference: you put yourselves on the side of the owners and we put ourselves on the side of the tenants.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the state of the nation, Taina Bofferding argued that unaffordable living costs for nurses, police officers and young couples are a failure of the system.
\n\n\nWann eng Infirmière, e Polizist oder eng jonk Koppel sech d’Liewen am eegene Land net méi leeschte kënnen, dann ass dat net d’Versoe vun de Leit, mee dann ass dat d’Versoe vum System.
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If a nurse, a police officer or a young couple can no longer afford life in their own country, that is not the failure of the people, that is the failure of the system.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nOn 23 November 2023, on the first day of the debate on the government programme, Fred Keup named population growth as the cause of the housing shortage and of high prices.
\n\n\nEt ass dat, wat eis de Mangel u Wunnenge bréngt, et ass och dat, wat d’Präisser sou an d’Luucht dreift.
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That is what brings us the shortage of housing, and that is also what drives prices up so much.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Fred Keup, ADR
\nOn 24 April 2024, in the general debate on the budget bill 8383, Sam Tanson argued that only affordable housing supply solves the problem at its root.
\n\n\nEt ass nëmmen iwwert d’Offer vun abordabelem Wunnraum, wou mer de Problem un der Wuerzel geléist kréien, e Richtungswiessel, deen an de leschte fënnef Joer ageschloe gouf, vun deem mer hoffen, datt en net fale gelooss gëtt.
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It is only through the supply of affordable housing that we get the problem solved at its root, a change of direction taken in the last five years that we hope will not be dropped.
\nSitting of 24 April 2024, Sam Tanson, déi gréng
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the state of the nation, Sam Tanson stated support for a land-mobilisation tax and a tax on empty dwellings.
\n\n\nJo, mir wëllen eng Mobiliséierungssteier. Jo, mir wëllen eng Tax op eidel stoend Wunnengen.
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Yes, we want a land-mobilisation tax. Yes, we want a tax on empty dwellings.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Sam Tanson, déi gréng
\nOn 23 November 2023, in the debate on the housing chapter of the government programme, Sven Clement argued the housing shortage is a credit problem, not a demand problem.
\n\n\nDe Problem läit net bei der Demande – se läit beim Geld!
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The problem does not lie with demand. It lies with the money!
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the continuation of the debate on the state of the nation, Sven Clement argued that unaffordable housing drives essential workers out of the country.
\n\n\nWann eis Keessjären, eis Krankefleegerinnen, eis Polizisten d’Land verloossen, well se hei net méi wunne kënnen, da verléiere mer net just d’Wunnengen, mee mer verléieren d’Mënschen, op deenen eist Land opbaut.
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If our cashiers, our nurses and our police officers leave the country because they can no longer live here, then we lose not only the dwellings, but we lose the people our country is built on.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 12 March 2024, during the interpellation on the government's new housing measures, David Wagner named rents rising faster than wages as a main cause of unaffordable rented housing.
\n\n\nEng vun den Haaptursaachen, firwat ëmmer manner Leit sech eng Wunneng an der Locatioun leeschte kënnen, dat ass, datt d’Loyeren einfach méi séier an d’Luucht gaange si wéi d’Salairen.
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One of the main causes why fewer and fewer people can afford a rented home is that rents have simply risen faster than wages.
\nSitting of 12 March 2024, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 17 June 2026, in the first reading debate on the bill giving the Observatoire de l'habitat a legal base, David Wagner stated a figure on the concentration of building land.
\n\n\nWat mer och wëssen, dat ass, datt 0,5 % vun der Bevëlkerung ongeféier d’Hallschent vum Bauland hunn hei zu Lëtzebuerg an drop sëtze bleiwen an och derfir suergen, datt d’Präisser eropginn.
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What we also know is that 0.5 % of the population hold about half of the building land here in Luxembourg, sit on it and thereby drive prices up.
\nSitting of 17 June 2026, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 19 December 2023, at the vote on the state financing of two public affordable-housing projects, the Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning named the communes as the main partner for building more.
\n\n\nWa mer insgesamt méi wëlle bauen, wa mer méi schnell och wëlle bauen, wa mer och méi abordabele Wunnraum wëlle schafen hei zu Lëtzebuerg, da gëtt et ee Partner Nummer 1: Dat sinn d’Gemengen, déi mer dofir brauchen.
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If we want to build more overall, and build faster, and create more affordable housing here in Luxembourg, then there is one partner number one: the communes, which we need for that.
\nSitting of 19 December 2023, Claude Meisch, Ministre du Logement et de l’Aménagement du territoire
\nOn 2 April 2025, in the debate on the bill extending the temporary tax measures by six months, the Minister of Finance stated that the package should not be extended beyond 30 June 2025.
\n\n\nEch sinn der Meenung, dass dee Pak, dee mer hunn, net iwwert den 30. Juni 2025 sollt verlängert ginn!
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I am of the opinion that the package we have should not be extended beyond 30 June 2025!
\nSitting of 2 April 2025, Gilles Roth, Ministre des Finances
\nOn 17 June 2026, in the first reading debate on the bill giving the Observatoire de l'habitat a legal base, the Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning described the housing market as politically determined.
\n\n\nMir hunn och, mengen ech, mam Logementsmarché e Marché, dee jo net fräi ass, well ganz vill politesch Decisiounen, administrativ Decisiounen decidéiere jo, wéini, wou an a wat fir enger Quantitéit gebaut gëtt.
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With the housing market we have a market that is not free, because a great many political and administrative decisions determine when, where and in what quantity building happens.
\nSitting of 17 June 2026, Claude Meisch, Ministre du Logement et de l’Aménagement du territoire
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