 The company is owned by the Austrian federal authority with a 25 percent shareholding, and by the Tyrolean regional and Innsbruck municipal authorities, the regional authorities of Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Upper Austria, and the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce, which each hold a one-eighth share in the company.Another partner is the German Friends of Innsbruck Universities Association in Munich, which only holds a one-thousandth share in the company but is an invaluable patron of ISH in terms of both moral and material support.Student accommodation problems in the 1930s

In the 1930s it was very difficult for students to find accommodation in Innsbruck, with a growing student body on the one hand and a general shortage of rooms on the other.