'Adopt a Street' in Offenbach: Turning complainers into co-producers
The project has been financed with a small budget. Apart from a full-time job for the project manager – Sabine Süβmann – the costs invested in each neighbourhood are €60,000 – 100,000. This mainly includes investment costs for bringing about improvements but also PR.
Clearly, public spaces which are taken care of require less maintenance. However, there have been no direct savings, since before the initiative nobody took care of public spaces and just accepted the run-down state of the local environment. All in all, the initiative has improved the quality of life if of local people in disadvantaged areas with little financial investment and built up social capital. |
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Florian Birk, former Associate of Governance International wrote this case study on 24 September 2010. The case study was updated on 27 February 2013. |