Homes-uP – Single-Family Homes under Pressure?
Content
In many countries, single-family homes constitute the majority of residential buildings. Economic and financial crises, demographic and social structural change, as well as changes in user preferences are raising new challenges to this segment of the housing stock. Outside core regions of economic growth, stagnating or dropping prices, difficulties in selling, and even vacancies are no longer a rarity in this segment in many regions. Nonetheless, these developments and the possible consequences have hardly been investigated. Studies from a number of relevant perspectives are needed, including economics, ecology, settlement-structure or the social situation.
Together with the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR, Dresden), the Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (ILS, Dortmund), the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE, Frankfurt/Main) and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim), we pursue three key objectives:
- A description of trends of traditional and novel single-family homes user groups and their housing preferences.
- A description of the characteristics of current single-family homes building stocks.
- An understanding of the effects of these changes. We are interested in the consequences for the market outcome, in particular for prices and vacancies, and we study the implications for the use of natural resources.
- The identification of possible development scenarios and approaches to action.
The investigations of the situation in Germany was supplemented by comparative studies inside Europe, as well as in Japan and the United States. The international perspective was underpinned by several international cooperating partners and an international advisory board.
Events
Internal Workshop at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, from 18–19 May 2015.
International Workshop at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, from 23–24 November 2015.
Internal Workshop at the ifo Institute, Dresden Branch, from 21 – 22 March 2016.
International Conference at the Centre for European Economic Research, from 13 – 14 October 2016.
Publications on the project
Fritzsche, Carolin and Lars Vandrei, "Altersvorsorge durch Eigenheimförderung …?", ifo Dresden berichtet 24 (03), 2017, 26–27 | PDF Download
Fritzsche, Carolin and Anton Groß, "Ein Überblick über Wohnungsmarktpolitik in europäischen Ländern", ifo Dresden berichtet 24 (02), 2017, 03–11 | PDF Download
Lerbs, Oliver, Jonas Neubacher and Markus Teske, "Wohnungsleerstand in Ostdeutschland: Begünstigende Faktoren, kleinräumige Trends und Auswirkungen auf Marktwerte", ifo Dresden berichtet 24 (02), 2017, 12–20 | PDF Download
