https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/ Vienna is tightening short-term rental rules, adding flood-protection capacity after the 2024 storms, restoring nature on a former railway site with EU LIFE funds and redesigning the Erdberg office area. en https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/wienerfeld-west-council-housing-second-phase/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/wienerfeld-west-council-housing-second-phase/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna has begun the second construction phase of the Wienerfeld West council estate in Favoriten, adding 40 timber-built council flats, a commercial unit and an underground car park by 2028, on the way to around 300 new flats. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/freedom-of-information-first-year-review/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/freedom-of-information-first-year-review/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna has published its review of the first year under the freedom of information act, reporting 30,279 working hours and about 2.2 million euros in costs, with around 250 officers in city departments handling requests. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/online-calculator-checks-rent-increases/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/online-calculator-checks-rent-increases/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's MieterHilfe has launched a free, anonymous online calculator that lets tenants check whether rent increases are lawful under the federal rent brake, which caps regulated-sector rises at one per cent in 2026 and two per cent in 2027. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/chronic-pain-centre-first-year/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/chronic-pain-centre-first-year/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's chronic pain therapy centre (TCS) in the Rabenhof, run by the Herz-Jesu Krankenhaus, took on around 800 new patients and carried out around 8,000 treatments in its first year, with funding agreed until autumn 2027. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/winter-package-extra-homeless-shelter-places/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/winter-package-extra-homeless-shelter-places/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's Fonds Soziales Wien started its 2026/27 winter package on 28 October, adding around 1,000 places for homeless single people and couples, places for 38 families and 255 warming-room places until 28 April 2027. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/first-low-traffic-neighbourhood-works-start/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/first-low-traffic-neighbourhood-works-start/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna has started works on its first Low Traffic Grätzl around Wolfganggasse in Meidling, turning part of the street into a pedestrian zone and blocking through traffic with diagonal filters, while offering each district 50,000 euros for one such area by 2030. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/short-term-rental-rules/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/short-term-rental-rules/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's housing committee has backed stricter short-term rental rules, including a mandatory provider register from 1 January 2027, fines of up to 50,000 euros per violation and a requirement that converted buildings keep at least 80% of floor space as housing. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/donauinsel-rainwater-pump/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/donauinsel-rainwater-pump/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's sewer utility Wien Kanal has commissioned a 15,000-litre-per-second rainwater pump at the Donauinsel pumping station, an €18 million project that raised peak capacity from 45,000 to 60,000 litres per second for Floridsdorf and Donaustadt. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/erdberg-tangente-plan/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/erdberg-tangente-plan/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna's urban development commission adopted a guiding plan on 13 October for the Erdberg office area at the Tangente, including an ARWAG high-rise with a publicly accessible 5,000-square-metre roof park, whose design will come from a 2027 architectural competition. https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/life-viennatura-breitenlee/https://futurehubs.eu/cities/vienna/news/life-viennatura-breitenlee/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTVienna has begun renaturing the former Breitenlee railway yard, an area of about 90 hectares under Natura 2000 protection, through the EU-funded LIFE VienNATURA project, replacing invasive species such as goldenrod and tree of heaven with oaks.