There’s growing public debate about affordable housing in Austria. Available empirical research on the issue, however, is scarce. The real estate platform Immobilienscout24.at has published a short report, which was also widely covered in the media. It provides current numbers, but has methodological problems. I’ve written a short post about it on the blog http://www.urbanizm.net. […]
Last week our institute organized a symposium on the challenge of providing affordable housing in cities at the TU Wien, together with Urban Forum and Österreichische Städtebund. The event was a big success, with more than 150 people attending. The newspaper Wiener Zeitung published an article about the event here: https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wien/stadtleben/950473_Eine-Ressource-fuer-die-Elite.html The program can be […]
Die Tageszeitung Heute hat in ihrer Printausgabe vom 12.2.2018 den Artikel „Uni-Experte warnt vor Ghettos am Stadtrand“ veröffentlicht. Der Artikel ist an mehreren Stellen faktisch falsch und zitiert Dr. Justin Kadi mit Aussagen, die dieser nie getätigt hat. Der Artikel spricht etwa von einer neuen Studie der Technischen Universität Wien zum Thema soziale Durchmischung. So eine Studie […]
I wrote a short piece on the reform plans for housing policy of Austria’s new coalition government. A comparison of the coalition agreement with the most recent press materials of the association of the real estate industry (Verband der Immobilienwirtschaft) shows how successful the industry did their lobbying. Many of their demands are included in […]
I gave an interview on Austrian TV about growing socio-spatial inequalities in Vienna. It’s available online (until 14 February): http://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Wien-heute/70018/Wien-heute/13964493/Soziale-Durchmischung-als-Herausforderung/14235860
I was honored to contribute a talk to a seminar on the ‘right to the city’ at the University of Vienna, Department of Political Science last Friday. I gave a short presentation on the growing housing problems in Vienna, situating them in a discussion about the specific institutional context of Vienna’s housing market. We had […]
Although I am a little late with this I still want to briefly reflect about my last academic year. Clearly 2017 has been hectic, not least due to a job change and a subsequent move from Weimar, Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar to Vienna, Vienna University of Technology. 2017 started with a publication of a book chapter on […]
Together with my colleagues Roman Seidl and Leonhard Plank I have wrote a short piece on Airbnb in Vienna. It appeared in the montly journal “Wirtschaftspolitik Standpunkte” of the Austrian Chamber of Labor. We show how Airbnb in Vienna is not so much about “home-sharing”, as it is about commercial real estate development. The piece […]
The new coalition government in Austria has presented their reform plans for the coming years as part of the coalition agreement. In the field of housing, the plans show striking similarities with the current demands of the real estate industry. I have compared the governmental reform plans with the most recent press materials of the […]
Austria has a new government. The coalition proposal also includes plans to reform housing policy. One of the main objectives is to increase the homeownership rate in Austria. I wrote a short comment on the problems of this policy, given the current lack of affordable housing for low-income households. For them, homeownership is no alternative. […]
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