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assistance to renters. Between 2004 and 2016, while Kahr was in office as councillor for housing, 960 new community housing units were built and property was acquired for 550 more. She donates two-thirds of her monthly salary to charity, totalling around 900,000 euros by 2014. Since her election as mayor, Kahr has indicated that she would be able to donate more due to her increased salary.
242:. She was adopted at three years of age and grew up in a working-class district. After finishing elementary and secondary school, she attended the commercial school in Grazbachgasse. After working at the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank, she attended the evening business academy, which she graduated in 1984 with the
331:, with the KPÖ holding three city councillors and the Greens one, while the SPÖ take over a number of committees in the city council. Kahr was elected mayor by the Gemeinderat on 17 November, winning 28 out of 46 votes. She became the first female mayor of Graz and first communist mayor of an Austrian city.
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left the city council to focus on state politics. Kahr succeeded him as the face of the Graz KPÖ, and replaced him as councillor for housing, a position she held until 2017. The 2008 municipal election saw the party lose 6 of their 12 seats and slide to fourth place. However, it recovered in the
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or similar states. In a 2021 interview she stated that the
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of "key businesses and facilities that are necessary for everyone", but nothing more. Nonetheless, Kahr emphasises that her focus is on working in the community, and that personal ideology "has no direct use for the people".
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