• Thu, 15. May 2025 and further dates
  • 09:00 - 17:00
  • Innsbruck, City Archive/City Museum Innsbruck

Easterfestival

The issue of satisfactory living space occupies the public and politicians more than almost any other topic. However, this is by no means a current phenomenon. That is why this exhibition is dedicated to cramped and precarious housing in Innsbruck over the last 120 years. The barracks built in various parts of the city after the First World War were used for a long time. After they gave way to new residential buildings in the 1960s and 1970s, precarious housing shifted to historic and outdated buildings in the city center.
Today, only refugees live in substandard housing - but the overheated housing market limits the square meters that ordinary mortals can afford. This always raises the question of the actions of politicians and administrators. Affordable housing" has long since degenerated into an empty slogan on the election posters of all political parties. In the years after the Second World War, for example, housing conditions were precisely surveyed and systematic allocations were made to private apartments. Today, the introduction of a vacancy tax is causing a stir
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