"Creating more affordable housing in the district is one of the most important issues in the district," said Heiner Pfrommer, Head of the Department of Labor, Youth and Social Affairs at the Ludwigsburg District Office, welcoming the participants. Representatives from 16 municipalities followed the impulses of good examples from the district and beyond. Mayor Ralf Trettner reported on the approach taken in Pleidelsheim. A 14-family house was completed in the asparagus community in 2022 and Caritas and Jugendhilfe Hochdorf were brought on board as partners. This year, an eight-family house with affordable living space was completed.
In Remseck, according to Mayor Birgit Priebe, the concept award is a means of quality assurance. Urban properties or neighborhoods are sold with special requirements: urban development or architectural requirements, social requirements such as affordable housing and rental housing as well as the creation of a social infrastructure.
Gernot Pohl, head of department at the city of Kirchheim/Teck, presented the development of the Steingauquartier. The "Kirchheim model" implemented here stands for an open concept procedure with the aim of developing a lively, small-scale and mixed-use quarter. The individual plots were allocated to families, individual investors, building groups and developers following a prior low-threshold application. The focus on the common good played an important role in the application.
Ralf Fuhrländer, Head of Office at the City of Nagold, explained: "To ensure urban development, architectural and social quality standards, several planning alternatives or concepts are generally required. When selling municipal land with the aim of building apartments, a concept is always awarded.
In the lively discussion among the representatives of the municipalities that followed the specialist presentations, a wide range of issues were addressed and topics were discussed, some of them controversially.
The event took place as part of the project "Creating more affordable living space in inner-city development in the district of Ludwigsburg", which has been funded by the Ministry of Regional Development and Housing since 2021. With this project, the district wants to support municipalities in developing activation approaches for inner areas and identifying inner development potential and vacancies. The project will be implemented until the end of 2023 and is being supported by the IfSR Institute for Urban and Regional Development.
Keyword "affordable housing": We speak of affordable housing when no more than 30 percent of disposable income has to be used for housing.
