RESEARCH TRACK:
HOUSING DEMANDS AND AFFORDABILITY

Projects 2010

The Economic Linkages of Subsidised Residential Housing Construction in Vienna: Using a mix of grants, loans, and allowances, the City of Vienna, via Wiener Wohnbauförderung, subsidized a construction volume of 774 Mio. € to provide new housing, plus an additional 349 Mio. € to adapt and improve the existing housing stock (annual averages, 2005-2009). »

Residential housing construction as a means of urban development: The continuing strong population increase incites the Vienna urban planning department to huge steps in their development. Currently, several large extension areas are in the state of planning and realisation. Those were the focal point of the three-part discursive event series "Housing construction as a means of urban development", which took place in the rooms of the IG Architektur in Vienna in autumn of 2010. »

Projects 2009

Evaluation of demand-side housing subsidies in Vienna: The study at hand documents the available demand-side subsidies pertaining to housing policy in Vienna within a national and international context. Accordingly, the provision of housing benefits, social assistance for housing expenses and personal loans substituting future tenants' capital contributions for limited-profit housing for all of Austria's nine regions was analysed. »

Housing demand in Vienna 2009: This study's aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of current demand for housing and of the needs and wishes of people looking for a flat in Vienna. To this end, 2.007 interviews were conducted with persons over 18 years of age in July 2009. »

Projects 2008

Affordability of Housing Supply in Vienna 2007: Regular household income and available assets play a decisive role in selecting housing in Vienna. Therefore the City of Vienna attaches great importance to the topic "affordability" of housing for all households living in Vienna. »

Analysing Regional Inequalities in Construction Costs - A Vienna and Munich Case Study: This study aims to analyse, if and to which extend there are systematic regional inequalities between the cities of Vienna and Munich with regard to the regional level of construction costs. »

Evaluation of rental purchase as an instrument of Vienna's housing policy: Analysis and evaluation of the developments in housing law that have taken place since statutory pre-emptive rights were established under the third Housing Law Amendment as well as economic and sociological aspects from the perspective of the housing industry and housing users or entitled persons. »

Housing Conditions in Vienna - Changes as Mirrored in the Austrian Mikrozensus: The project investigates the changes of housing conditions in Vienna during the period of 1996 to 2006 using the statistical data based on the Austrian Mikrozensus. »

Local Subdistricts with High Concentration of Municipal Housing Supply: In political discourse opinions diverge on the effects of municipal housing in
terms of social integration. This report provides exemplary data regarding this set of questions based on local subdistricts ("Zählbezirke" i.e. subunits of a district used for statistical data collection) in Floridsdorf in which municipal housing accounts for a high share in the total offer of dwellings. »

Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus: A Socio-Spatial Profile of Housing Provision: Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus - on the western side of the outer city ring road called "Gürtel" - is ranked 15th among Vienna's districts (based on the surface area). The density of population is more than four times higher than Vienna's average. In late 2007 at total of about 71,000 persons had their main residence in Vienna's 15th municipal district. »

Simmering: A Socio-Spatial Profile of Housing Provision: Simmering, situated in the south eastern part of Vienna, covers one twentieth of Vienna's total surface area. Almost half of the district surface area is green land; in proportion to the total surface area, the density of population is the second lowest of all municipal districts of Vienna. »

Simply Social Housing: In Vienna the audience for affordable new housing is steadily growing, and so are the costs from financing to the execution of construction work. The objective of this consulting study is to identify the most efficient measures of all relevant fields of action for Vienna´s housing. »

Vienna Housing Market Report (2006/2008): In the early 1990ies SRZ launched a series of extensive housing demand investigations in Austria, later succeeded by systematic annual collections of experts’ opinions on Austria’s regional housing markets. Today a comprehensive housing monitoring system has been developed, well founded on these previous survey experiences and on the continuously grown experts’ network. »

Projects 2007

Donaustadt - A Socio-Spatial Profile of Housing Provision: Donaustadt is Vienna's largest district, comprising about one fourth of the area of Vienna. Large parts of the district are not yet used intensively for business, industrial or housing purposes. They represent the largest reserves for urban development. »

Floridsdorf - A Socio-Spatial Profile of Housing Provision: Floridsdorf (the 21st district of Vienna), situated in the north of Vienna on the left bank of the Danube, covers about one tenth of the total area of Vienna. Although the district has been used intensively as an industrial and housing location for a long time, some areas in the north and east are still available for more intensive housing developments. »

The Demand for Additional Supply with Housing Space: The current demand in Vienna's housing market is determined by the number of households seeking new housing. Even if Vienna's population would not grow at all (which is not the case), there is a considerable demand for new housing. »

Projects 2006

Forms of Supply-Side Subsidies in the Rental Housing Sector: The aim of the research project was the description and analysis of various forms of supply-side subsidies for rental housing, provided in Austria and in other EU countries. In particular, operation and effects of these subsidies were to be studied. »

Preparations for a Housing Market Monitoring System in the CENTROPE-Region: Findings of the first phase of preparations for a cross-border cooperative project are briefly summarised in the final report, now presented by SRZ Urban+Regional Research Vienna. The preparatory investigations were aiming at the development of a monitoring system of housing markets in the Centrope-Region. »

Projects 2003-2005

Efforts of arbitration agencies in cases of laws governing tenancy in Vienna
Survey and interpretation (2003-2004): If there is a litigation concerning laws governing tenancy in Vienna between the tenants and the landlords, there has to be a proceeding of the case at a special arbitration agency (Schlichtungsstelle in Mietrechtsangelegenheiten). The aim of the study is to describe and to analyse the efforts of the arbitration agency in cases of the year of 2000. »

The Impacts of EU Enlargement on the Viennese Housing Market (2002-2004): The survey deals with prospective flows of migrants and commuters from the accession countries Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The evolving demand for housing is calculated on the basis of the age and income structure of potential migrants, the size of households as well as the planned duration of residence here. »


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