Want to make affordable housing? Start by designing inclusive neighborhoods!

There is a lack of affordable housing in Graz, creating a spiral that leaves lower-income population groups with the choice of where to settle: either outside the city, but with insufficient and/or expensive mobility, or within the city, but with an excessive share of income for housing costs. In the city of Graz, there are currently around 5,000 municipal residential buildings that are managed by the city and an additional 6,500 transferable residential buildings, where housing developers build on municipal land with funds from housing subsidies. Public and private mobility spaces are under discussion. They are to be strategically minimized and then designed in a socio-ecological way. In order to facilitate this process, an atlas will analyze and document the general framework conditions of social housing in Graz and subsequently the neighborhoods in terms of their spatial and systematic connections with the territory, the neighborhood and the social context. For this purpose, we will carry out an on-site analysis and survey together with students from the second semester.