Everyday housing issues

The exhibition in the Stadtlabor focuses on the past, present and future of the housing issue. It focuses on three Frankfurt housing estates that are exemplary for the confrontation with social and ecological housing issues. The Carl-von-Weinberg-Siedlung in Westend, Knorrstraße in Gallus and the Henri-Dunant-Siedlung in Sossenheim embodied a new understanding of housing and living at the time they were built. Ownership structures, architecture, forms of housing and the social demands on housing construction were rethought. But what has remained of this? Today, the estates are in private hands and have already been or are currently being renovated. How do these changes affect the housing and living conditions of the residents?

In the Stadtlabor, people who live or work in the estates, activists and neighbors put their stories and memories together. Experts from science, urban planning and politics explain urban policy changes over the last 40 years. An excursion to Frankfurt's twin city Tel Aviv shows that the housing crisis is not a regional problem, but affects major cities worldwide.