The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) has a channel for young people, called Der Fluter. For this, the Agency produced a nice little video about Vienna’s housing policy, centered around a video interview they did with me. What can German cities learn from Vienna – and what shouldn’t they try […]
It was a great pleasure to contribute to a TV broadcasting on the shortage of affordable housing in European cities on the TV station ARTE. I took part in a studio discussion in Paris, together with Marianne Louis, General Director of the French Union Sociale pour l’Habitat and Kai Warnecke, President of the German Association […]
I’m somewhat late with this, but Antonia Schneider, Leonhard Plank and I published a new report on housing construction in Vienna in June. It comes out of a research project that we did in the TU Wien research group Housing Research for the Chamber of Labour Vienna. In the project we cooperated with the real […]
It was great fun to contribute to the podcast series of the Precarious Housing in Europe (PUSH) project. PUSH is a Strategic Partnership of seven European partners funded under the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme. The program focuses on providing a knowledge base on precarious housing in Europe and raising awareness of the issue. It describes […]
I’m very happy that Jan Glatter and Michael Miessner have put together an edited book on gentrification and displacement (in German), which aims to provide an overview of current debates on these issues in the German-speaking context (find the book here). I had the pleasure to contribute a chapter on Vienna’s housing policy. I’ve used […]
How do different European cities intervene in the housing market and what are the consequences for housing conditions? How do five growing European cities (London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna) differ in this regard? I have published a new report on this issue together with my colleagues Harald Baron, Ngoc Doan and Leonhard Plank. It grew […]
Here are some things I recently did: Acted as discussant in the Hot off the press Book Series “The Challenge of Urban Futures”, organized by the University of Vienna. We discussed the book The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There), by Shane Phillips together with the author Co-organized the […]
Together with Antonia Schneider and Roman Seidl, both TU Wien, I’ve published a short paper how COVID-19 impacts on Airbnb and what this means for housing markets. It appeared in the journal Critical Housing Analysis. Our starting point was that Airbnb has been argued to have major impacts on housing markets prior to COVID. If […]
Seit Jahren steigen Mieten und Wohnungspreise – vor allem in wachsenden Städten und Regionen Deutschlands. Günstiger Wohnraum wird zunehmend knapp und gerade untere und mittlere Einkommensgruppen sind von hohen Wohnkosten belastet. Der Band bringt gestalterische, gesellschaftliche und politische Lösungsansätze in einen Dialog. Die Beiträge erkunden die Gründe für die Wiederkehr der Wohnungsfrage und stellen Strategien […]
I am very much looking forward to chairing an event with Josh Ryan-Collins from the University College London (UCL) in Vienna next week. Josh Ryan-Collins will present his new book “Why can’t you afford a home?” and we will discuss the relevance of his arguments for the Austrian context with local experts. I am posting […]
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