Wohnen, Wohnungspolitik und Nachhaltigkeit

Eine Einführung

Abstract

This introduction discusses the understanding of housing, sustainable housing, housing politics and housing politics research. It outlines various perspectives on housing policies (liberal, welfare state, critical) and discusses their nexus to normative as well as empirical-analytical scientific understandings. Moreover, sustainable housing policies either refer to the paradigm of Green Growth (energy efficiency, technology orientation), or they represent a Post-Growth approach that questions the behavior of our previous living routines and focuses on sufficiency.