A Housing Manifesto — VIENNA | habiTAT: Living for Future & SchloR

Lecture “habiTAT / Living for Future & SchloR” held by Viennese housing cooperative co-initiators Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger and Gudrun Pollack.
The event took place online on Tuesday 1 February 2022 at 19:00 CET. The presentation is followed by a talk of Gabu Heindl about the Housing Manifesto.
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LISA SCHMIDT-COLINET & ALEXANDER SCHMOEGER: LIVING FOR FUTURE
Being part of the Austrian association habiTAT and as co-initiator of the housing cooperative Living for Future, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Alexander Schmoeger will talk about their experience with the tenement syndicat and a self-organized housing project in Vienna. habiTAT’s main target is to realize self-managed and solidary housing project initiatives. The model of habiTAT is appropriate to break the unquestioned dependency of a house owner and a tenant. The syndicat is actually a combination of both. The living space of the activists themselves is for the long term, and the legal framing of the concept – transferred from German “Mietshäuser Syndikat” – grants a written refusal to any further real estate speculation in the future. As a new habiTAT member, the group Living for Future has conceived 1-10-100, a housing project, which they now have the chance to implement in Vienna’s 14th district.