Research Database

EMI Epitesugyi Minosegellenorzo Innovacios (HU, coordinator), Solar Tech-Investment (HU), Zavod Za Gradbenistvo (SI), Gospodarska Zbornica (SI), RenoWave.AT, IIBW (2023-2026):

European Commission, funding by the Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)

The aim of the EU-LIFE project “RENOINVEST – Roundtables enhancing smart investments in sustainable renovation of buildings” is to bring together all relevant stakeholders from the financial sector, the real estate and construction industry and politics in working groups and, above all, national roundtables to discuss urgently needed financing solutions for the climate-neutral renovation of our building stock and to jointly find feasible solutions by 2030.

IIBW (2024):

(In: www.iibw.at).

The short study presents the Austrian housing policy model with its core elements of limited-profit housing (LPHA) and housing subsidies.

Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH (Projektleitung), in Kooperation mit dem IIBW (2021-2026):

(Wien: Stadt der Zukunft, 8. Ausschreibung).

ZQ3Demo accompanies three innovative urban quarters in Vienna to demonstrate and further develop ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for the implementation of Plus-Energy-Quarters (PEQ) on the basis of real-life examples.

Mundt, A., Wagner, K., Angel, S., Amann, W. (2024):

In: The International Journal of Housing Policy.

This contribution to the International Journal of Housing Policy examines the question of why the home ownership rate amongst young households declined in Austria similar to other countries. The focus is on the national level, as well as on a detailed analysis of the situation in Lower Austria and Vorarlberg.

Amann, W., Oberhuber, A. Mundt, A. (2023):

(Wien: IIBW, im Auftrag des Landes Wien).

This study is the most comprehensive data collection and analysis available on the Austrian housing subsidy schemes.

EIB, IOM (2024):

At this international workshop, the legal, financial and institutional framework conditions for the introduction of an affordable housing sector in Ukraine were discussed.

Amann, W. (2024):

In: Housing Finance International, spring 2024 edition.

In the context of the "New European Bauhaus" initiative "Rebuild Ukraine", IIBW has developed a new legislative approach on affordable housing. In this paper, the model law on "Common Good Housing" is presented.

Angel, S., Mundt, A. (2024):

In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 3/2024

Across Europe, there is a trend to re-focus social housing on the most economically vulnerable groups (“residualisation”). The paper investigates whether this trend is also observed in Austria, a conservative welfare state with a social housing system open to a broad range of households and a long tradition of municipal housing.

IIBW (2023):

(Wien: IIBW, im Auftrag des Fachverbandes Steine-Keramik und der GBV Landesgruppe Tirol).

This booklet gives an overview of housing subsidies in Austria.

Amann, W., Wagner, K. (2023):

In: Hypostat 2023.

This country chapter on Austrian housing and mortgage markets within the well-known Hypostat publication is a co-production of the IIBW and experienced housing finance experts.