Alle Tage Wohnungsfrage. Vom Privatisieren, Sanieren und Protestieren
In the organizer's words:
Frankfurt once stood for welfare-oriented construction: in 2025, the city will celebrate the centenary of the New Frankfurt and social housing estates were also built by the city in the post-war decades. However, since the abolition of public housing in 1990, the housing market has been characterized by a decline in public housing construction and privatization. The housing crisis has been worsening for decades, the need for affordable rental housing is increasing, while publicly subsidized housing is steadily declining. At the same time, the necessary renovations show that the housing issue is now both a social and an ecological one, as environmental aspects and displacement processes can no longer be considered separately.
The exhibition in the Stadtlabor focuses on the past, present and future of the housing issue. It focuses on the voices of the residents and the social consequences. What stories do they have to tell about the buildings and about their struggles for the affordability and quality of their homes? What structural and architectural changes are needed to enable socially and ecologically sustainable housing? Experts from science, urban planning and politics will explain the urban policy changes of the last 40 years.
The focus will be on three Frankfurt housing estates that exemplify the debate on this topic:
- Knorrstraße in Gallus, former railroad housing estate (1890s)
- Carl-von-Weinberg, formerly the Miquelstrasse estate (1930s, New Frankfurt)
- Henri-Dunant estate in Sossenheim (1960s, post-war modernism)
The estates embodied a new understanding of housing and living at the time. Ownership structures, architecture, forms of housing and the social demands on housing construction were rethought.
The housing crisis is not a regional problem. Privatization processes in urban development affect many metropolises worldwide. An excursion to Tel Aviv, Frankfurt's twin city, will show this. The hopeless situation of many residents led to one of the largest political mobilizations in Israel in 2011.
In the urban laboratory "Every Day Housing Question", residents, academics, activists, tenants' associations, local politicians and urban planners will have their say. The newly emerging, multi-perspective knowledge can be used to develop joint strategies for a social and ecological housing policy.
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