Underused buildings - Mainstreaming

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PUBLIC CONSULTING AGENCY, CHEMNITZ, GERMANY

PUBLIC CONSULTING AGENCY, CHEMNITZ, GERMANY

Public consulting agency to connect owners of neglected houses with new users

Founding of the ‘Agentur StadtWohnen Chemnitz’ (CityLiving Agency Chemnitz) with the goal to coordinate relevant stakeholders and support alternative housing projects in order to enable the sustainable development of unused historic (...)
REGULATION OF CIVIC USE OF URBAN COMMONS/COMMON GOODS, NAPLES, ITALY

REGULATION OF CIVIC USE OF URBAN COMMONS/COMMON GOODS, NAPLES, ITALY

Public regulation for the reuse of public vacant buildings through bottom up initiatives

Tool (legal framework) to regulate the reuse and management of vacant public buildings considered as “common goods” through bottom up initiatives.

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FUND OF TEMPORARY USE, GHENT, BELGIUM
FUND OF TEMPORARY USE, GHENT, BELGIUM

Ghent initiated a 'Fund of Temporary Use' in 2014 to support light adaptation of temporary use places and to give a financial incentive to new ideas or initiatives of temporary use.
The initiative get funded, should:
- Be achieved in a temporarily vacant spot (fallow land, unoccupied premises, vacant buildings…) pending a new destination.
- Be a contribution to an enhanced liveability of the (...)
PRECARIOUS OCCUPATION AGREEMENT, NANTES, FRANCE

PRECARIOUS OCCUPATION AGREEMENT, NANTES, FRANCE

Use of existing legal framework (Precarious Occupation Agreement) to establish a legal basis for temporary use.

On the Island of Nantes, France, the local development agency, the SAMOA, has used the existing legal form of precarious occupation agreements since 2004. As the owner of several large empty old industrial buildings the SAMOA looked (...)
ZZZ ZWISCHENZEITZENTRALE TEMPORARY USE AGENCY, BREMEN, GERMANY

ZZZ ZWISCHENZEITZENTRALE TEMPORARY USE AGENCY, BREMEN, GERMANY

The municipality is outsourcing a service of go-between and support between candidate for temporary use and owners of vacant spaces.

Bremen initiated in 2009 a temporary use agency for the whole city of Bremen. After having a kind of pilot project for a limited time in the place of the old harbour site, the city of Bremen decided to apply with the idea of a (...)
FROM EMPTY HOUSING TO SOCIAL INCLUSION VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDES, SPAIN

FROM EMPTY HOUSING TO SOCIAL INCLUSION VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDES, SPAIN

25 years of housing rehabilitation for social purposes

In the context of high poverty, exclusion and the increasing number of empty housing units, accentuated by the crisis, the Vilafranca (ES) Inclusion programme deals with the renovation and rehabilitation of vacant housing while reusing (...)