Housing in the Center of Towns

The Lower Austrian Housing Research provides fundings for projects, aimed on research on innovative living and housing. We participate with a project considering following aspects:

  1. Single-family houses have been the priority type of housing during the last few decades
  2. Aging of population leads to an increasing demand on services supporting people in their everyday life (provision, caring, health)
  3. Buildings and apartments not suitable/comfortable for elderly people take negative impact on their quality of living
  4. Communities face the challenge of “dying” centers – especially those which cannot provide attractive housing for a younger generation

The research focuses on showing the connections of these aspects. We will illustrate the main advantages of building age-conform housings in the center of the towns – for both, elderly people and the community.

Employer

Office of the Federal Government of Lower Austria, Housing Research (Wohnbauforschung)