Alongside citizen's benefit (Bürgergeld), housing benefit is the central pillar of social housing security in Germany. It helps low-income households to cover their housing costs. On 1 January 2023, the housing benefit plus reform was implemented and led to the most …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2021 – September 2023
Climate protection requires a significant emission reduction in all sectors. This also includes the building sector, which missed its climate protection targets in 2020. Climate protection measures change housing costs: modernisation can result in higher rents, while …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2021 – November 2023
Transparency of land ownership serves as a crucial basis for sustainable land policy. However, data availability, data quality and transparency are often deficient. The project therefore examines the causes and consequences of the divergent levels of data availability …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Ongoing
Started:
Since October 2023
Since the beginning of 2020, the Corona crisis has affected cities and regions. To contain the spread of the virus, restrictions on economic and social activities were considered as an important measure. However, many people rely on public spaces and facilities in the …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2020 – July 2023
The so-called construction backlog (German: Bauüberhang), i.e. approved but not yet completed dwellings, has increased in recent years. The research project examined structures and changes in the construction backlog and analysed reasons for this. The results serve as a …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2020 – December 2022
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
February 2021 – August 2022
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2020 – August 2022
In 15 case studies with different communal starting points and different basic conditions, in 2017 and 2018 the project collected communal strategies for dealing with current immigration development. The objective was to gain systematic knowledge about conditions and …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2016 – February 2021
The development and safeguarding of green and open spaces requires long-term strategies at both urban and regional level. The major significance of these concepts becomes apparent in the light of current challenges such as the increasing utilisation pressure, the …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
December 2019 – December 2021
Urban gardening is a young, but for quite some time ongoing phenomenon that – to continue the metaphor – "grows and thrives", especially in large cities. The study provides an overview of the spread and typologies of urban gardening in Germany. It also identifies which …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
July 2020 – June 2021