The Vienna Model: Karin Ramser, Director of Vienna's Community Housing. Podcast 5 by Athena Media published on 2019-06-26T16:36:54Z The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century In this series we showcase highlights from the Vienna Model. In this interview Karin Ramser, Director of the City of Vienna’s Community Housing (Wiener Wohnen) talks to Helen Shaw about Vienna's history of social and public housing (Gemeindebau) and how it's seen as a social good, and an integral part of the city's approach to creating a just, equitable and peaceful community. Karin's office looks after 220,000 flats, over half a million people, in the city and she explains why, for nearly 100 years now, public housing is so important to Vienna City. Vienna is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe and is heading back to 2 million people in a few years time. Helen Shaw talked to Karin during the December 2018 Housing for All conference in Vienna on social and affordable housing in Europe when Vienna hosted over 300 people from 39 countries and showcased its social housing philosophy. Irish delegates attended and that prompted the April exhibition and seminars in Dublin. Karin explains that in Vienna someone's address can not tell you how much they earn or what social class they are. ‘We don’t have areas in Vienna where, as a woman, you are afraid to go when it’s dark.’ https://www.thisiswherewelive.ie/viennamodel for more If you want to read a transcript of the podcast click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nlfYwgWT3adrnpRwiD2CFzR3iT0Jt8n/view?usp=sharing
