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The LSAP local section has published its election manifestoPicture credit: LSAP on Facebook 

Here are a few points of their manifesto:

Urban development

The city council must take action to create more housing instead of leaving it to developers. It must use all the tools available, national and European as well, to create a voluntarist policy in housing matters. It needs a housing development programme with yearly evaluations. A big effort in terms of acquiring housing and plots of land, and through building more housing must be made as soon as possible.

If the current city development plan is insufficient, it should be studied whether to extend the perimeter of urbanisation, but it should focus on creating new neighbourhoods.

The LSAP wants the city council to: encourage the repopulation of central neigourhoods, limit the construction of shopping malls, favour residential construction over the construction of offices, and favour the creation of small shops.

Furthermore, the LSAP wants to establish a registry office for small shops, publish the list of all buildings owned by the city council, and sell city land through leaseholds. It wants to introduce the system of “right to buy” for social housing which is rented, and says that 10% of new constructed housing must be at “moderate cost”.

The LSAP wants to construct more social housing and buy up housing and rent it out.

The LSAP has an extensive programme on the architectural heritage of the city, and wants a better register and systematic protection. It also wants to avoid the “hollowing out” of significant buildings, where only the façade stays. It rejects new constructions which are of bad quality and ignore the architectural specificities of the city.

Childcare

The LSAP wants to extend “foyers scolaires” (after-school daycare) to all the children in “précoce” (nursery school), to create a pool of substitute educators, conduct a study on opening the “foyer scolaire” at 7 a.m., and create a free indoor play area.

For young people, the LSAP plans to extend cooperation with institutions and associations, such as Caritas and Interactions, to take better advantage of the European institutions for educational projects, and to organise international conferences such as Model United Nations, or Euroweek.

Social justice

The LSAP wants to recruit more social assistants and more streetworkers.  It refuses to privatise local services, and wants to give young people the opportunity to get professional training along with job opportunities. It wants to decentralise social services for the homeless and drug addicts, and calls on other local councils to take up their share.

Culture and sports

The LSAP wants to introduce free entry to museums and create a house for cultural associations in Luxembourg, to create an “artist in residence” project based on a yearly competition, and a centre for creation and art in Hollerich or Dommeldange. There are also several ideas to get young people and children more involved.

The centre left party wants to increase the offer of free Luxembourgish language classes and conversation classes, without tests involved.

It wants to build an open-air swimming pool.

Economic development

The LSAP plans to create a consultative committee for the economic development of the capital, to introduce lower rents for innovative shops for a certain period of time in council-owned premises. It wants to examine each case on the basis of commercial diversity and introduce weekly markets in Bonnevoie.

Security

The LSAP is in favour of installing CCTV cameras, applying zero tolerance against anti-social behaviour and vandalism and wants more police presence.