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 […]
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 recently contributed to a podcast around urban housing crises, Berlin, Vienna, and what to do about it. It was produced by the German newspaper DerSpiegel in collaboration with the Austrian newspaper DerStandard. I talked about similarities and differences between the German and the Austrian housing system, what the main causes are for the current […]
Identifying areas in the city where gentrification takes place is a key concern for both scholars and policy-makers. For long, however, methods for doing so were rather underdeveloped, particularly those that use systematic, quantitative data. This has changed in recent years with a number of new approaches being developed specifically for the North-American and German […]
I have a new paper on the history of gentrification in Vienna out in the journal City. It’s a collaborative piece I co-authored with the geographer Walter Matznetter from the University of Vienna. We attempt to account for the changing state of gentrification in the city over the last 130 years. Furthermore, we draw three […]
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 […]
Spain is currently preparing a new housing law. In this context, housing policies are widely debated. Vienna is apparently often referred to in these debates and held up as a best practice example. Against this background, I gave an interview for the online newspaper ElDiario, together with my colleague Sarah Kumnig (Vienna University of Economics). […]
I’ve a new paper out in the Austrian journal Kurswechsel. It is part of a special issue on urban politics in Vienna, put together by Leonhard Plank and Alexander Hamedinger from TU Wien. My piece is about recent policy reactions to the mounting housing problems in Vienna. It assesses whether they constitute a significant shift […]
Dieses Buch ist der erste Sammelband zu Gentrifizierung in Wien. Es bietet einen Überblick über Wissen zu Gentrifizierung in Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis. Mit Beiträgen von: Walter Matznetter, Christoph Reinprecht, Lilli Bauer, Gerhard Hatz, Mara Verlic, Walter Rosifka, Christina Liebhart, Camilo Molina, Projekt Grätzeleltern, Yvonne Franz, Michael Friesenecker, Elke Rauth, Katharina Hammer, Judith Wittrich, Marc Diebäcker, […]
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