vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development

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vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development e. V.
(vhw e.V.)
Vhw logo blue white with name.png
purpose Promotion of citizen participation in urban development through scientific research, educational funding and public relations
Chair: Jürgen Aring , board member
Establishment date: 1946
Number of members: approx. 2,000 (September 2019)
Seat : Berlin
Website: vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development

The vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development e. V. is a non-profit association operating in Germany. Through advanced training and research in the fields of housing and urban development, he is committed to the performance of municipalities, a diverse civil society and the strengthening of local democracy.

It emerged from the German Volksheimstättenwerk eV (vhw) and has been called vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development eV since its statutes were changed in 2009. The legal seat of the vhw is Berlin, the administrative offices are Berlin and Bonn. The federal office is based in Berlin. There are also seven regional offices.

history

Sebastian Beck (right), scientific advisor at vhw , in 2014 in conversation with Almut Maldfeld from the Hanover volunteer center

The Deutsche Volksheimstättenwerk eV (vhw) was founded in 1946 by leading housing and social policy makers, churches, trade unions and welfare associations. The vhw thus closed a gap that had arisen as a result of the political delegitimisation of all housing associations that had still originated from the Weimar Republic . The founding members included u. a. the former President of the Reichstag Paul Löbe , the Cologne Mayor Robert Görlinger , Johannes Lubahn , the prelate Benedikt Kreutz and the then senior consistorial councilor Eugen Gerstenmaier . A reform of land law as a prerequisite for the promotion of owner-occupied residential property for broad sections of the population was seen as a priority task . This should give the people, especially the bombed out and refugees, a perspective on life again.

In 2004 the association declared its original socio-political task to be solved. The land reform had proven to be politically unenforceable and the promotion of home ownership was discontinued. With the final inclusion of the owner- occupied property in the Riester subsidy , which the vhw had demanded, the end of this era of association policy was reached. In 2004 the Deutsche Volksheimstättenwerk eV (vhw) renamed itself the Federal Association for Home Ownership and Urban Development. Since the statutes were changed in 2009, the association has been called vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development eV The federal office was relocated from Bonn to Berlin in 2000.

Goal setting

The aim of the association is to promote a responsible urban society, which is to be achieved through the participation of citizens in urban planning processes within urban development. To this end, vhw promotes scientific research and its dissemination in all areas relating to sustainable urban development, such as B. Population and environmental policy , spatial planning , architecture and urban development . The target groups are all actors involved in urban development, from citizens through politics and administration, research and teaching to business.

organization

The vhw has over 2,000 members (as of September 2019). The majority of the members are local authorities and housing companies. According to the statutes, membership for private individuals is excluded.

organs
  1. The general meeting
  2. The Board of Trustees - It advises the Board of Directors on fundamental issues. It is made up of public figures from science, politics, administration, the housing industry and associations.
  3. The Association Council - Its tasks are to advise and supervise the Board of Directors as well as to pass resolutions on fundamental issues relating to association policy and budget issues; Chairman is Peter Kurz , Lord Mayor of the City of Mannheim (as of September 2019), Deputy Chairmen are Charlotte Britz , former Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken (as of November 2019), Peter Stubbe, CEO of GEWOBA Aktiengesellschaft Bauen und Wohnen, Bremen and Michael Sachs, former State Councilor, Hamburg
  4. The Management Board: Jürgen Aring (as of September 2019)

Publications

The vhw publishes the trade journal Forum Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung , which appears 6 times a year with a circulation of 3,500 copies. He publishes scientific documents, specialist books and essays. Publishing activities are handled by vhw -dienstleistungen GmbH, whose sole shareholder is vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development.

  • vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development, vhw series 1, Migranten-Milieus , Berlin 2009.
  • vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development eV, vhw series 2, engagement in the neighborhood and communal citizen orientation , Berlin 2010.
  • vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development eV, vhw series 3, Dialogue to Strengthen Local Democracy , Berlin 2011 - ISBN

978-3-87941-952-4.

  • vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development eV, vhw publication series 4, vhw communication manual: Practical communication with the milieus of urban society , Berlin 2013 - ISBN

978-3-87941-956-2.

Web links

Commons : Vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Articles of Association. vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development e. V., accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Profile. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Articles of Association. vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development e. V., accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Regional offices for advanced training. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Reinhart C. Bartholomäi, Housing Policy in Germany - a Conceptual and Historical Approach, p. 22, from: Björn Egner u. a., Housing Policy in Germany, Darmstadt 2004
  6. ^ Deutsches Volksheimstättenwerk e. V. Federal Association for Home Ownership, Housing Construction and Urban Development (Ed.): 50 years of vhw 1946-1996 . Bonn 1996, p. 2 .
  7. ↑ Reinhart C. Bartholomäi, Housing Policy in Germany - a Conceptual and Historical Approach, p. 22, from: Björn Egner u. a., Housing Policy in Germany, Darmstadt 2004
  8. ↑ Reinhart C. Bartholomäi, Housing Policy in Germany - a Conceptual and Historical Approach, p. 22, from: Björn Egner u. a., Housing Policy in Germany, Darmstadt 2004
  9. ^ Association Council. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .