For more than 100 years, the City of Zurich has been promoting non-profit housing construction at the city itself, cooperatives and foundations. It gives up cheap building rights land to non-profit housing developers and grants loans and equity investments. Today, a quarter of all apartments in the city belong to non-profit developers.

The housing policy of the City of Zurich is coordinated across departments by the four-member housing delegation (WoDel) of the city council. It is chaired by the mayor, with the chief financial officer, the head of the building construction department and the head of the school and sports department.

On behalf of WoDel, a five-member "WoDel Staff", consisting of the three heads of service of Zurich Urban Development (management), properties in the City of Zurich and the Office for Urban Development, a department secretary of the Department of Finance and the information officer of the City Council, accompanies the housing programme, the housing policy reporting to the municipal council and the housing policy strategy focus on behalf of WoDel . He is responsible for the corresponding conceptual planning and coordinated implementation as well as monitoring and communication. It informs the housing delegation for the attention of the city council about the progress and implementation and ensures the close professional support of the residential delegation. The management is involved in urban development. The "WoDel Staff Working Group" prepares and follows the business of the WoDel staff.

Urban development coordinates the current housing policy strategy focus of the city council "Using new and optimized instruments for housing policy" (www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ssp). Urban development is also organised by the "Internal Housing Forum" (which emerged from the "Housing Platform").

Via the "Echoraum Wohnen", the residential delegation of the city council is in regular contact with representatives of the private and non-profit residential and real estate sector.

The Information Officer of the City Council is in charge of the strategic communication of the Housing Programme and is a member of the Housing Delegation. It manages the communication and reporting on the Housing programme and coordinates the communication managers in the departments involved.

Urban development is also organised by the "Internal Housing Forum" (which emerged from the "Housing Platform"). 

More comprehensive information on the housing policy of the city council can be found at www.stadt-zuerich.ch/wohnpolitik .