Within the funding districts of the Urban Development Support programme, the research project examined municipal’ approaches to historically valuable key buildings in urgent need of intervention. Feasibility studies conducted locally created new possibilities in terms …
Programme: Urban development grants
Status: Completed
Project duration:
January 2018 – December 2021
Housing policy is a central field of action for all Member States of the European Union. Its manifestation in each country is the product of an individual historical evolutionary path, local market structures as well as the national regulatory framework and funding …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
January 2018 – September 2021
Many municipalities experience a continued or resumed population growth due to migration. As a result, new urban quarters emerge in numerous local authorities. However, this process has not been a focal point of academic and planning practice-related discourse, mainly …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2017 – November 2020
Between January 2018 and November 2020, two guiding documents for urban development in Europe were developed: The "New Leipzig Charter: The Transformative Power of Cities for the Common Good" and the related document "Implementing the New Leipzig Charter through …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
January 2018 – October 2021
Particularly in growing communities, it is necessary to promote new housing construction through infill development. However, this gives rise to a wide range of coordination and negotiation requirements. The aim of the model projects in this research field was to find …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
January 2017 – December 2020
The study has analysed the development of housing benefit (Wohngeld) in the period 2009 to 2015 and presents the resulting need for reform (including ex ante expectations). An ex post impact analysis of the 2016 housing benefit reform was also conducted. Furthermore, …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2017 – July 2020
Markets for assets such as real estate are prone to price exaggeration. Overconfidence, herd instincts and other behavioural anomalies of investors can lead to self-enforcing price trends and the formation of price bubbles. Speculative debt and banking crises may …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
December 2018 – June 2020
International and European agreements like the New Urban Agenda, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Urban Agenda for the EU give new impetus and place demands on cities. In order to make municipalities future-compliant and to …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
September 2017 – October 2019
Real estate owners, investors and developers need more transparency regarding current and future climate related hazards and risks, especially to reduce the extent of financial and health risks of climate change. Within the GIS-ImmoRisk research project a …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2015 – December 2018
In apartments with a high energy standard, the basic rent is often higher than the maximum amounts under § 12 Housing Benefits Act (Wohngeldgesetz). As a result, they are often not affordable for housing allowance recipients. The examination of the extension of the …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2017 – December 2018
