Indicator history

There are several projects aiming at promoting intercultural living together. The project wohnpartner is a service of the city of Vienna offering tenants of public housing professional counseling and mediating in neighbourhood conflicts as well as various measurements for fostering neighbourhood communities and increasing identification with the shared environment. It aims to improve the quality of living for the residents of the Vienna's community housing by improving the cooperation and understanding among neighbours. wohnpartner carries out the project Public Apartment Building as a Meeting Place, which addresses the issue of people from different backgrounds living together. At numerous events, the so-called "ambassadors" (often celebrities with a migration background) spoke in to gatherings of interested residents about their personal experiences as Austrians with a migration background.

A project carried out by the Interface Wien GmbH [Interface Vienna Ltd.] addresses the housing problems of people who have been granted asylum or subsidiary protection. It aims to ensure a stable housing situation of the target group as a necessary prerequisite for every further step towards independent living. In the municipal districts of Leopoldstadt and Simmering, the city of Vienna is constructing new residential buildings under the heading of ‘intercultural housing’. This is to encourage understanding among persons of diverse cultural backgrounds and good neighbourly relations between them.

Source: http://www.wohnpartner-wien.at/media/file/92_English_Infomappe_web.pdf; http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2010/05/27014.html; http://diepresse.com/home/immobilien/markt/oesterreich/638734/Wohnbau_Wien-will-interkulturelles-Wohnen; http://www.interface-wien.at/system/attaches/18/original/MoWien_Beiblatt_Web.pdf?1261049244