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E. Deutsch:
"Some Principles of Social Housing: What Justifies Institutional Social Renting";
Vortrag: Seminar des OTB, Technische Universität Delft, Delft (eingeladen); 09.10.2010.

Welche Gründe sprechen für insitutionell verankerte Sozialwohnungsanbieter? Weshalb können Private die Strategien nicht einfach übernehmen? Worin bestehen Widersprüche mit den Zielvorgaben? Der Beitrag gründet auf der These, daß soziales Wohnen ein kulturelles Produkt darstellt. Ausgehend von ökonomischen Prinzipien werden politologische Aspekte des Konflikts zwischen liberalen und kommunitären Politiken diskutiert. Es wird argumentiert, warum soziale Anbieter zumindest im Prinzip diesen Konflikt überbrücken, und damit zur nachhaltigen sozialen Kohäsion beitragen können.

Which principles speak in favour of legally endorsed institutional social landlords ? Do social providers perform genuine activities that, even under state support, cannot easily be copied by private landlords ? What limits of social housing provision might interfere with the committed targets ?
The present paper starts from the thesis that social housing is essentially a cultural product. Proceeding from purely economic functions to the role of cultural enterprise the paper points to the pertaining antagonism between liberal and communitarian politics, to which social housing is exposed, and which give rise to economic and social conflicts. We argue that - at least in principle - social providers can widen the scope of tenure choice on the housing market, and they can bridge, under suitable public monitoring, the inherent gap between allocating households in need and forming communities in a stable environment.
The derived principles are checked against several characteristics in Austrian social renting, which are encountered in other systems as well. The paper concludes with policy considerations about market competition versus social cohesion.

Social providers, demand-sided versus supply-sided, tenure neutrality. social mix, liberal versus communitarian, cultural product