[Housing quality in cities from the tenant's point of view]

Since the demand for higher quality of live has been the big discussion, also the call for a more livable city has become more and more frequent. For urban development policy it is necessary to workout conceptionally the different demands for a higher living quality. First it is essential to define the content of the term Quality of Live. In this article one tries to show how the term is broken-up in it's components and how it can be empirically tested with help of indicators. Results from different studies show what the needs of the inhabitants are and how much weight the different quality components have for different population groups. The results show that in all groups of inhabitants-aside from the superior features of a city (infrastructure)-the component living environment plays an important role. If it is rated in a negative sense, it is often the ground of leaving the city-especially for families.