Wohnbund

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The Wohnbund eV is a registered association founded in 1983 in the course of a congress of the Deutscher Werkbund in Darmstadt with its seat in Munich ; it is recognized as a non-profit organization and has around 200 members.

Current

The association sees itself today as an association for housing and urban development alternatives. In the discourse with the traditional associations of the real estate and housing industry, qualitative aspects for socially oriented and environmentally conscious living are to be emphasized. The association sees a greater future in the qualitative development of living and urban development than in the traditional business management orientation. With this basic attitude, the association participates in the debates of the associations and the specialist public and is an organ of mutual professional and political networking.

The members include experts from:

  • Intermediate advisory organizations, redevelopment agencies, urban development companies
  • Architecture and planning offices
  • Housing company
  • Residential group projects, tenants' associations, associations
  • City administrations, universities and scientific institutes, parties and tenant initiatives

They form a network of specialists and organizations who are committed to housing policy and contribute to the development and realization of contemporary living with their work.

activities

The members maintain the exchange of experiences among other things in various working groups - currently the working group "Young Housing Cooperatives" or the working group "Social City - Urban Redevelopment". The Wohnbund is the publisher of the wohnbund information , which is published three to four times a year in an edition of around 600 copies. It organizes forums and congresses on current housing and urban policy issues - most recently "International City Quarters" .

The network includes a. those in housing policy, e.g. For example, companies such as WohnBund-Beratung NRW GmbH , Wohnbund Frankfurt Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH , the Austrian Wohnbund branch and Wohnbund-Beratung Dessau offer advice, project support and research .

idea

When it was founded, the association wanted to see the question of housing not only as a question of quantitative supply, but also as a cultural one , in the face of an emerging social change, which was expressed, among other things, in new household and lifestyles . In the founding call, the Wohnbund set itself the task of developing and supporting approaches that do justice to a holistic view of living. With the Wohnbund, the housing policy initiatives that were everywhere at the time were to be given an organ of professional connection and a permanent forum for their social and historical context should be created.

aims

Following on from the housing reform movements at the beginning of the 20th century and the resurgence of the movement for self-determined living from 1980 onwards, the Wohnbund wants to contrast conventional housing policy with alternatives and provide professional support to housing policy initiatives and projects.

Housing policy has to face new challenges in times of profound social changes. The Wohnbund has set itself the goal of getting involved in public discourse and accompanying this process with events and publications.

Further goals are:

  • Revitalization of the cooperative movement in the sense of self-administration and initiative
  • Promotion of living satisfaction through more identification with the apartment and the living environment
  • Promotion of the resident participation in planning and management of the apartments
  • Development of self-determined neighborhoods to promote solidarity and to build social networks
  • Integration of social and cultural initiatives and development of employment and work opportunities close to home
  • Long-term social ties in affordable housing

The housing policy demands are described in more detail in the Hamburg Manifesto , which was adopted by the participants of the 4th International Congress "New Forms of Housing in Europe" from April 5th to 9th, 1989 at the final plenum.

Publications

The association is the publisher of housing policy literature, including:

  • Living Together - Group Housing Projects in the Federal Republic, Joachim Brech, Wohnbund, 1990; ISBN 3-922981-44-5
  • Housing Policy Innovations '90, Wohnbund, 1990; ISBN 3-922981-56-9
  • Group-related forms of home ownership, Wohnbund Association for the Promotion of Housing Policy Initiatives Frankfurt on behalf of the Federal Minister for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development (Research series BM Bau), 1990; ISSN  0938-8117
  • Building Together - Living Together: Legal and Financial Design Options for Group Projects in Housing Construction, Christian Kuthe / Wilhelm Mermagen / Albert Schepers - WohnBund-Beratung NRW, 1993; ISBN 3-922981-75-5
  • Housing Policy Innovations '92, Wohnbund, 1992; ISBN 3-922981-72-0
  • Housing Policy Innovations '94, Wohnbund, 1994; ISBN 3-922981-89-5
  • Housing Policy Innovations '95 / '96, Wohnbund, 1996; ISBN 3-922981-90-9
  • Migration - City in Transition, WOHNBUND eV, 1997; ISBN 3-922981-91-7
  • Apartment - settlement - quarter, developments, projects and perspectives for social living, Wohnbund-Beratung NRW, 1999; ISBN 3-929797-47-X

The contents of the published Wohnbund information and books are z. B. in

  • Innovative approaches in the living area, Breckner / Kichmair, 1997; ISBN 3-924352-10-0
  • Housing Cooperatives - Potentials and Perspectives - Report of the Expert Commission Housing Cooperatives 2004, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, 2004; ISBN 3-428-11581-3

used as a source of information for the authors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wohnbund information
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: SRL Date reference for the specialist conference: International city quarters )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srl.de
  3. ^ Wohnbund-Beratung NRW GmbH
  4. ^ Wohnbund Frankfurt Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
  5. ^ Wohnbund in Austria
  6. ^ Housing Association Advice Dessau
  7. ↑ The Hamburg Manifesto (PDF; 29 kB)