Underused buildings - Mainstreaming

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 (...)

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

Mainstreaming

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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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)