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Dr. Wolfgang Förster, Author of "The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century"

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 7:15 p.m.

In this episode of Our Homes we speak with Dr. Wolfgang Förster. Doctor Wolfgang Förster is one of the world’s top experts on Vienna’s unique social housing model, which houses 62 percent of the population in rent controlled, government-built housing with amenities from theaters to manmade lakes to private gyms.  He is the coordinator of IBA-Vienna (the 2020-2022 international building exhibition on New Social Housing). Wolfgang works in his own company PUSH-Consulting (Partners on Urbanism and Sustainable Housing). Since 2001 he has been Head of the Vienna Housing Research. He is a Delegate of Austria to the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, and Chair of this Committee since 2009. Wolfgang also chairs the EUROCITIES Working Group on Housing and has been coordinator of several EU-projects. In 2013 Förster suffered a stroke which interrupted his professional career for two years. In 2015, he received the honorary Medal for Achievements for the Federal State of Vienna. Förster studied architecture, planning and political sciences in Vienna and Graz. This episode of Our Homes is hosted by Ryan Catalani.