Sufficiency in Housing and District Development

Housing is becoming increasingly expensive, developer-driven, and based on a model of individualist consumerism in many cities. At the same time, a broad range of community-led housing initiatives found diverse activities and arrangements that work outside of profit-oriented market relations and emphasize alternative – often sufficiency-oriented – outcomes instead. The project researches how sufficiency manifests in these housing communities and projects. This broad interest translates into two related research foci. First, the project explores the mechanisms that coordinate and sustain these activities, in particular ‘infrastructural organizations,’ (IO) which support the development and maintenance of community-led housing. Second, the project researches the effects of alternative housing arrangements beyond individual projects. Here, we view alternative housing arrangements in the context of broader sustainability and sufficiency-oriented economic arrangements on the level of districts and municipalities.

Ansprechpartner: Schmid B
Tel: ++49(0)761 203-3566
Email: benedikt.schmid@geographie.uni-freiburg.de

Projektbeginn: 2022
Projektende: 2026

Schmid B

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie

Schreiberstraße 20
79098 Freiburg i. Br.

Telefon: 203 - 3563
Email: humangeo@geographie.uni-freiburg.de
http://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/de