Decisions and figures that concern the whole city.
Around 90,000 city residents would be able to apply for a yearly premium supplement. Cost: about CHF 60 million a year. The first payments would come in 2028 at the earliest.
The city executive has adopted 20 integration goals, for the first time with a separate focus on preventing discrimination. Two weeks earlier it appointed the 25 members of the Foreigners’ Advisory Council for 2026–2030.
The discount would come as a voucher code on existing Zone 110 annual passes and the GA. Because the spending is so large, voters will have the final say once more.
The city statistics office’s 2026 rent survey shows a slower rise than in 2022–2024, but large gaps: non-profit or not, new build or long-running lease, old town or Affoltern.
By 2035 the city must convert more than 600,000 square metres of road space. After one year it has reached a third of the greening target, but only 8.3 per cent of the target for walking, cycling and public transport.
The city approved all five municipal proposals, and in the high-rise dispute it backed the city parliament’s version. Kreis 12 rejected two of them. On the cantonal teachers’ law, the city voted differently from the canton.
The city executive expects deficits of around CHF 600 million a year until 2030 and is therefore cutting or postponing investments, from the Tiefenbrunnen marina to the Dammsteg bike bridge.
By summer 2027, at least 20 per cent of the hottest classrooms are to get shading or cooling. The “Meine Kinder” platform is to become the single entry point for subsidies and courses.
People who have just moved to Zurich should not have to wait before they can get the city’s top-up to old-age and disability benefits or its education grants. The city parliament passed two motions against the city executive’s wishes.
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