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Additional Loan of NRW.BANK for Building with Wood

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Housing construction has great potential to contribute to resource conservation. For this reason, NRW.BANK supports developers with a new additional loan under the state's housing promotion programme.

Wood as a building material already contributes to climate protection during the construction of a building. This is why the Ministry of Home Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Building and Equality has introduced a new additional loan for construction projects with a high wood content in the context of its housing promotion programme. Regardless of whether the project involves the construction of a new building or the modernisation of existing properties, NRW.BANK offers attractive development loans under the state's housing promotion programme to create affordable and modern housing.

Attractive low interest rates with high redemption discounts of 15 to 25 percent, and partial crediting against equity, as well as a long fixed interest rate.

"Housing developers and investors who opt for a 30-year commitment period are now rewarded by the development bank for North Rhine-Westphalia with an even higher redemption discount of an additional 5 percentage points. For special aspects - such as building with wood - the repayment discount is even 50 percent. In addition, the initial interest rate on the development loans is now uniformly 0.0 percent in NRW for a period of 15 years. In modernisation promotion, building owners can now benefit from a repayment discount of up to 30 percent (regularly 20 percent) if they use certified ecological insulation materials or achieve an above-average energy standard."

FAQ and general information about it:
www.bauen-mit-holz.nrw/...neues-zusatzdarlehen-fuer-bauen-mit-holz/


Keywords: Funding, Wood construction, News Blog NRW

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Study "Urban Production for a Productive City

Production in the city is not a new phenomenon. Urban production - in its various forms and development paths - is one of the constitutive features of a city. The concept of the Productive City opens up the possibility of using a strategic approach to link the central aspects of the changing socio-economic basis of cities (development of new forms of production and work) with the goals of a compact and functionally mixed city.

In a research project of the iaw, the conceptual foundations of urban production and the productive city were prepared with a view to the situation in Bremen and analysed in their impact structure. The study makes proposals for describing and recording urban production that is compatible with the city and embedding it in an urban development policy model of a productive city. On the basis of seven reference cities (Vienna, Zurich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Wuppertal, Bochum), corresponding activities were filtered out and their transferability to the city of Bremen was examined. In the city of Bremen, eight locations and neighbourhoods (including the Tabakquartier and Kellogg-Areal) were examined with regard to their potential for implementing a productive city.

Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen (ed.), authors: Nischwitz, Guido; Chojnowski, Patrick; von Bestenbostel, Martin (2021): "Urbane Produktion für eine Produktive Stadt Bremen. An opportunity for more employment?" Series Work and Economy in Bremen 34/2021, Bremen. 202 pp.

Download link (pdf approx. 7 MB)
https://iaw.uni-bremen.de/f/71635f3091.pdf



Keywords:
DE-News, Research, Sustainable management, New books and studies, News Blog Bremen, Mix of uses, Quarters, City, Urban production

Berndt Koberstein Prize 2016 for the Tenements Syndicate
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Berndt Koberstein Prize 2016 for the Tenements Syndicate

Freiburg: the Berndt Koberstein Prize for Living Together and Solidarity in Freiburg, endowed with 10.000.-€, was awarded for the fifth time in Freiburg's "Weinschlösschen". The Tenement House Syndicate, which began in the early 1980s as a small cooperative on the Grether site, has developed into an association of 111 house projects with more than 2,000 residents in various cities and rural areas. In the individual houses people can live cheaply and independently, their organisation in the syndicate prevents the properties from ever being sold. They are thus withdrawn from the market and from profit-making.

With its decision, the jury of the Berndt Koberstein Award acknowledges the continuous great contribution of the Rental Houses Syndicate to the permanent preservation of affordable rental housing. "At a time when housing shortages and galloping rent increases are increasingly impairing the basic right to housing, the work of the Tenement House Syndicate is more valuable than ever," said the jury. The fact that the concept of the Tenement Houses Syndicate places a large part of the responsibility and decision-making authority in the hands of house communities receives special praise. "This creates responsible and solidary living together", says jury member Bernd Obrecht.

More information and a video of the award ceremony (May 2016):
www.berndt-koberstein-preis.de/...Preisverleihung-2016.html

Link to the award winner:
www.syndikat.org/de



Keywords:
Stakeholders, Awards, Cohousing, Sustainable management, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Housing policy, Housing projects

Two new photo galleries of the sustainable model city district in Malmö, Sweden, published
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Two new photo galleries of the sustainable model city district in Malmö, Sweden, published

On the one hand, there are 80 photos by Ludger Dederich from 2013, at which time the district was as good as completed. The urban integration of the "Turning Torso" by Santiago Calatrava can be seen well in some of the photos:
https://siedlungen.eu/galerien/fotogalerie-2013-malmoe

The second photo gallery consists of 30 photos from an excursion with the Chair of Economics and Ecology of Housing (University of Karlsruhe), from 1999, when the Europaviertel was not yet completely finished and visitors were still able to look into some of the furnished model apartments, which were open to visitors, via the building exhibition:
https://siedlungen.eu/galerien/fotogalerie-1999-malmoe



Keywords:
News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Sweden, Quarters, Settlements, Water design

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