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Want to solve homelessness and make it so people aren’t paying nearly all their income on housing? Look to Vienna

Das Packhaus is a project of Paradocks an international think- and do-tank for reuse of vacant buildings inVienna. Since 2014 Das Packhaus has been showing the potential for temporary use in the city of Vienna thanks to a community of 85 companies coming from different fields. A place where companies can support each other and where the city can benefit from an original semi-public space.

Pionnière mondiale de l’interventionnisme urbain, la capitale autrichienne a misé dès 1919 sur l’habitat social. Résultat, 62 % des Viennois en bénéficient aujourd’hui.

Austria’s capital transformed from a peripheral, declining outpost of the Cold War to a city that consistently ranks top of global quality of life surveys. Here’s how Vienna turned a series of major economic and geopolitical challenges to its advantage.

Supplying sustainable urban energy is another lighthouse action the City of Vienna implements through various projects. The Citizen Solar Power Plant „Wien Mitte“, which opened in 2012 is the biggest inner city solar power plant in Vienna. On the rooftop of the new railway station and shopping mall, more than 1,400 photo-voltaic panels produce at peak green electricity of 356 kilowatt-hours. That is enough energy for around 130 households. Offices and shops at Wien Mitte benefit directly from this energy source. 10,000 citizens invested €35 million in this project and helped to reduce CO2 emission by 17,000 tonnes.

Sustainability officers from Paris, Sabine Romon, and Vienna, Bernd Vogl, explain their clean energy goals and how they are planning to achieve them.

Michael Ludwig, the mayor of Vienna, presented a new stage of a new residential project on the site of the former Sophienspital. “Vienna is taking another step in its smart city strategy, which I have already advanced in my time as a residential city council. In the middle of Vienna, we create social housing according …

With the Smart City Wien framework strategy, Vienna is charting its course towards becoming a “smart city” when urban challenges like urbanisation, climate change, digitalization, population growth exist. This is a course that differs from the strategies of other cities in one key aspect: for Vienna, the integration of the social component into all areas is an essential element of its framework strategy. Climate-related and ecological objectives and the improvement of the everyday realities of its citizens are assigned the same importance in Vienna. Cities are smart if all people living in them have access to the same degree of participation.