Housing project

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A residential project is a community that develops, lives in and manages one or more houses together. Such jointly organized forms of living have been emerging in Germany and Western Europe in particular since the 1980s . As intentional communities , they are a modern variant of living together and a response to the aging of society and the scarcity of affordable housing and a contribution to the expansion of needs-based forms of life.

history

Many residential projects have their roots in the squatting , in emancipatory movements such as the lesbian scene and in the politically left or alternative spectrum. In contrast to owner associations , residential projects try to give those involved the opportunity to live independently , even without a lot of equity , often as an alternative to living in isolation in a single apartment or in a retirement home. Sociologically, this goes hand in hand with the fact that the small family with sole earners is shrinking and patchwork families and families of choice are increasing.

Manifestations

Self-administration and basic democratic working methods are characteristic of housing projects ; the speculation with home ownership as an investment is usually rejected. Non-commercial forms of participation and cooperative structures come much closer to the ideals of many people involved in residential projects than buyer models . More common than new construction is the resource-saving conversion of barracks or factory buildings and other old buildings that are threatened with demolition or decay. Organized group self-help is important for residential projects as a substitute for equity . In many cases, emphasis is placed on breaking down barriers against children and old people and expressly including people with a migration background . Individual projects also make intercultural living a central concern.

Related life forms were or are z. B. Settlement cooperative , eco-settlement , kibbutz and rural commune . Also car-free living , multi-generational housing , trailer camps or (construction) car seats , autonomous centers , industrial parks and inhabited by women beguinages show overlaps with residential projects. The boundaries to a pure marketing name are, however, fluid; so new real estate objects are sometimes offered as a residential project to promote sales if they z. B. are designed in some way across generations.

Projects

Germany

In Germany there are many “alternative” residential projects, such as Schellingstrasse in Tübingen , WiG - Wohnen in Gemeinschaft in Herne , MiKa in Karlsruhe , SUSI and Grether in Freiburg , Aegidienhof in Lübeck , Wohnsinn and Agora in Darmstadt , Venture in Munich , the ALLMEIND in Regensburg / Burgweinting, the former Yorck59 , the Rigaer 94 and the Köpi in Berlin or the Hafenstrasse in Hamburg. With over 120 cooperatively organized housing projects, Hamburg is a stronghold. In Baden-Württemberg in particular, there are many initiatives that, as self-governing GmbHs, have withdrawn their project houses from the capital and real estate market through a minority stake in the tenement house syndicate . The housing projects are financed through direct loans and often through loans from the GLS community bank .

Local housing project days have been held since the 1990s .

Austria Switzerland

The Sargfabrik in the west of Vienna with a large cultural center and KraftWerk in Zurich with space for communal living and working are known nationwide. Both have now formed offshoots.

Worldwide

In Denmark (first and foremost the free city of Christiania in Copenhagen), then also in other Scandinavian countries, in the Netherlands and in the USA, diverse cohousing projects have emerged that work with planning by the residents as well as elements of self-administration and thus parallels with housing projects in Germany exhibit.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Intercultural living. (No longer available online.) Schader Foundation, archived from the original on December 17, 2007 ; Retrieved September 20, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schader-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ Sense of living
  3. ↑ Agora
  4. ↑ residents' association Allmeind eV (accessed February 25, 2013)

See also

literature

  • Dorette Deutsch: Good prospects for old age. How an Italian village can change our lives . Piper Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-04873-0 . (Piper Paperback 2007)
  • Dorette Deutsch: Dreams of life have no age. New ideas for living together in the future . Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-901811-56-2
  • Dietmar Walberg: Guideline for group housing projects, edited by vd Arbeitsgemeinschaft für contemporary building eV Kiel 2015. ISBN 978-3-939268-22-2
  • Axel Janitzki, Walter Burkart (eds.): Alternatives to rented apartments and your own home - finance together, manage yourself. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-7725-0951-7
  • STATTBAU HAMBURG (Hrsg.): Housing projects, building communities, social urban development - the Stattbau book . Hamburg 2002. ISBN 3-9808222-0-6
  • Micha Fedrowitz, Ludger Gailing: Living together . Dortmund contributions to spatial planning, Vol. 112. Dortmund 2003. ISBN 3-88211-141-0 Download
  • Christine Philippsen: Social networks in communal housing projects. An empirical analysis of friendships and social support . Budrich UniPress, Opladen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86388-086-6

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