This allows various community members to obtain the space for their social, cultural, or other needs, under often more favorable terms.
The property owner often has less requirements than in the case of a normal lease: they do not have to maintain the spaces and can cancel the use at a much shorter notice.
Such approach is perceived as win-win for both property owners who get tax benefits, and users and a wider city community who get new content in those spaces.
Furthermore, such use is intrinsically bottom-up driven by citizens and can demonstrate needs in a city which would otherwise be left undiscovered.
The decisive factor, he says, is not at bottom the time period of the projects, but rather that here the citizens themselves are driving the development.