Lehner, J. (2024, October 16). Housing in Vienna. A historical review of the Viennese Model [Presentation]. Learning from international movements for land and housing justice, Dublin, Ireland.
Learning from international movements for land and housing justice
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Event date:
16-Oct-2024
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Event place:
Dublin, Ireland
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Keywords:
social housing; Vienna; Dublin
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Additional information:
Learning from international movements for land and housing justice part 2: Occupations in Cape Town and about the Vienna model of social housing.
Firstly we have Suraya and Andreas Scheba to tell us about their work with campaigns to pressure the City of Cape Town to use publicly-owned vacant land and property to deliver centrally located social housing. They will talk about their involvement in the occupation of Cissie Gool house, a former hospital that was vacant when it was taken over in 2017 and has since become home to around 1200 residents (over 340 families), most of whom were either evicted from their homes nearby, or were homeless. Today the residents of Cissie Gool House are once again being threatened with eviction.
Secondly we have Judith Lehner from the Centre for New Social Housing in Vienna who will talk about the realities of the Vienna model of social housing. Vienna is a city that held up as an example for other cities to follow in how it has managed to deliver high quality, secure and affordable social housing to the majority of residents. Elements of the Vienna model have recently been introduced in Ireland through cost rental housing, but this is being done in a very different housing context and ‘homeownership society’ . Learning from the Vienna model and how tenants experience housing in that city can help us identify issues for campaigns to focus on to build a model of secure rental in Ireland.
The workshop is on Wednesday October 16th from 7-8.30pm in the Macro Community Resource Centre, Dorset St, Dublin 1.
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Research Areas:
Urban and Regional Transformation: 80% Development and Advancement of the Architectural Arts: 20%
