Spades are lined up in his office: Michael Gehbauer, Managing Director of the non-profit housing authority WBV-GPA for more than 20 years, has already opened many construction sites and takes a souvenir from every groundbreaking ceremony. The fact that the occasions have recently become a little more sparse because domestic housing is in a veritable crisis has already greatly employed in his previous functions as the state chairman of the Viennese non-profit organization and as a chairman of the SP-close association for housing subsidy (VWBF). Now he continues: On Wednesday he was elected Federal Chairman of the Community Association; unanimous and without opposing candidates, as is common in the “Association”.