Strategies for Degrowth Housing III by https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom Good Housing for All en-us 2020-05-28 06:24:13 UTC 2020-06-01 15:21:28 UTC hello@padlet.com in the present situation social proximity is actually at risk, this includes house sharing, flat sharing, hospitality. Going at the root of the problem means we really have to get into open-localism: challenging disconnection from our living spaces, as well as disconnection from the places we visit by travelling, that is created by an event like COVID, which hypermobility amplifies. On the opposite with open-localism, we can get into social rapprochement. https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604930983 2020-06-01 14:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604930983 does upscaling really work?? https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604931550 ...or shouldn't we focus on multiplying, setting seeds for transformation elsewhere if we found succesful ways? 
BIG does not always comply with degrowth strategies. ]]> 2020-06-01 14:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604931550 Is there possible a conflict with Airbnb? https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604935357 As Airbnb excludes locals from the housing market in favor of Short term rentals to tourists. It also induced gentrification and rising rents. ]]> 2020-06-01 14:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604935357 I think we also need to think a bit beyond Co-Housing &etc, in my experience/my impression is that those are not really accessable and/or attractive for everyone https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604936313 Because many reasons like the time that needs to be invested, money, but there are also a lot of people that don't really want to communicate that much - and so on]]> 2020-06-01 14:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604936313 I think that all people are relevant regarding "Good Housing for All" https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604938628 Therefore, a potential conflict might be the different ideas about WHAT is "Good HOusing for All"

]]> 2020-06-01 14:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604938628 I think that the current situation, in which a lot of people had to stay at home for a couple of weeks... https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604943084 ... might affect people in terms that they enjoy gardens, free spaces, the "Green" of a city. It might also be the case that people enjoy community-space, if they only live in small flats.

]]> 2020-06-01 14:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604943084 Covid-19 a threat to Airbnb https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604943564 As international tourism takes a dive, Airbnb hosts have converted short term rentals into long term rentals allowing more locals into the property market. At the same time hosts cannot afford to pay mortgages - could this spark a housing recession???]]> 2020-06-01 14:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604943564 I think a cultural change has to happen in order to upscale concepts as collective ownership or Co-housing etc. Living in Sweden, there are a lot of shared spaces as common washing-machines etc. from post modernist times but the culture of ownership leaded to more and more people having their own facilities in their flats. The common machines are getting used less and less, flats get bigger instead. https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604946046 2020-06-01 14:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604946046 in my research (in Finland) i have found that anti-speculative collective housing projects often get support from municipalities (often because they align with various urban sustainability agendas) but then when it comes to plot allocation and pricing the projects face difficulties. To understand this though I found we actually need to zoom out to different scales to see how the state has created reforms in urban governance e.g. that cities need to compete against each other and generate income from land rents and also - in Europe - how this is related to EU demands. How do we engage with municipalities in these kinds of complex situations and better support collective alternatives? https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604946113 2020-06-01 14:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604946113 Municipalities play a crucial role in "Good Housing for All" as political actors decide... https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604949156 where to build new complexes, how they look and they define the short- and long-term "Stadtentwicklung"]]> 2020-06-01 14:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604949156 in the present situation of wide homelessness and necessity to challenge hypermobility, we need a strong dedication to hospitality at all levels, from the bottom-up, by welcoming visitors, but also from the top-down. https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604954915 2020-06-01 14:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604954915 as many of you know vienna is really famous for it's social housing, recently the city decided that 2/3 of new building properties have to be social housing. This is very important BUT it would be a very big step forward if they would also regulate the private housing sector.. otherwise the space distribution is still unfair. https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604957628 some interesting links: 

https://www.postwachstum.de/wohnen-und-postwachstum-in-wien-20190829

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000090670553/wohnbau-in-wien-zwei-drittel-muessen-kuenftig-gefoerdert-sein

]]> 2020-06-01 14:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604957628 politicise public infrastructure in general! https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604958144 maybe as one step politicise "niche" experiences not as escape but as part of a broader topic.. and eventually securing structures may follow. eg framing housing cooperatives as contributing to the provisioning of public housing and local democracy - (in vienna "Baugruppen" became part of urban redevelopment projects), however also danger of cooptation]]> 2020-06-01 14:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604958144 maybe some neighbourhoods build communities which were anonym before. https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604959825 2020-06-01 14:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604959825 Ownership and the power to be part of upscaling even if you want to - also local authority planning takes hold really quickly... https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962411 2020-06-01 14:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962411 https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962460 - slows down current housing projects
- Covid-19 may induce a financial crisis / because of fincial insecurity people with capita are buying more and more houses/ground while at the same time people with financial insecurity might be forced to sell their properties; 

]]> 2020-06-01 14:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962460 big danger of increasing inequality when the crisis hits harder - OR: politicise the experience how crucial the housing issue was during the lockdown https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962776 2020-06-01 14:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604962776 I see upscaling as a big problem - because we build in more and more space for things and rooms we don't need except for "consumption"... https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604963114 and therefore our "Flächeninanspruchnahme" (the amnount of space we need per person) grows and grows - for no real reason.]]> 2020-06-01 14:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604963114 there have been some studies into how collective housing can actually unintentionally contribute to gentrification in urban areas - by raising the land rents of surrounding properties because they are often quite 'cool'. Obviously this is not a problem with the projects themselves but rather with the financialized land regime - but we need to think about ways that we can approach this https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604966334 2020-06-01 15:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604966334 Good housing for all means rethinking the hyperconcentration of the city as well as the sprawl in the country https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604968914 2020-06-01 15:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604968914 municipalities are currently a great entry point, but rent regulations must be claimed at the national level, and commodification/financialisation of housing can only be discussed regarding internat. regulations https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604969853 2020-06-01 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604969853 General question is upscaling meant in a more inclusive way or in a "big solution for all" way? https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604971038 2020-06-01 15:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604971038 at the concrete level there is hardly a "common interest" in good housing for all: even potentially supportive actors are nowdays involved in the housing market and in favour of value increases - a challenge for alliances https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604975367 2020-06-01 15:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604975367 cooperative housing organisations could be a solution for upscaling. This means people could own or rent apartments from the cooperative and decide more themself https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604983937 2020-06-01 15:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604983937 i think times of urgency could be perfect for upscaling, but we need to be able to imagine a really different world: housing for all is not just a political option, it becomes a necessity https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604990371 2020-06-01 15:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/h1103989/fa8oova5zmcavhom/wish/604990371