Vienna Wohnfonds: Nicole Büch and Silvia Hofer, Wohnfonds

Wohnfonds_wien was founded in 1984. From its original tasks of advising and supporting the redevelopment of old buildings and providing plots for subsidised housing, it has evolved into an urban expansion and renewal programme that has received worldwide attention. The comprehensive redevelopment projects and sophisticated new residential buildings (results of the developer competitions introduced in 1995, the land advisory council and the quality advisory council launched in 2021) are nationally and internationally recognised models of a new urbanity worth living in.  

The wohnfonds wien is a non-profit organisation and acts as a service-oriented coordination office, among others, between developers, homeowners and their representatives, as well as municipal departments, especially the financing office and the service institutions of the City of Vienna. In addition, a new platform for renovations in Vienna was created with the Hauskunft, which has been in existence since 2020. The chairwoman of wohnfonds_wien is Deputy Mayor and Executive Councillor for Housing and Women, Kathrin Gaál.