Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All

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  @haemse · 5 years ago

  By all cities I've been visiting and some - been living - Vienna is a pure gem. A historic - as well as modern masterpiece of urban planning. It's all about art and sharing an awesome life. Now I live here and I love it every single day and try to contribute.

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• AL

  @alanleung1828 · 5 years ago

  Affordable housing?<br>Bloomberg: RADICAL IDEA!

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• YU

  @yuriydee · 2 years ago

  The biggest takeaway for me is that they build not just public housing BUT also communities. They build public transport, kindergardens, clinics, shops, parks, etc. We do NOT do that in the US. Developers here just plop up bunch of townhomes in middle of nowhere and then leave it to the county or HOA to manage everything. Zoning has a lot to do with this but its crazy that cities and towns let developers get away with doing the absolute bare minimum...

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• EL

  @ellaching2557 · 5 years ago

  As someone from Hong Kong, the world&apos;s least affordable housing place in the world for over 11 years, I felt so upset after watching this video. It&apos;s not like our government cannot solve the problem-- there are plenty of solutions. They just don&apos;t want to do anything with it.

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• MI

  @mikvance · 4 years ago

  &quot;B-but what about shareholders? You&apos;re just building houses for people to live in? That&apos;s crazy talk!&quot;

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• CL

  @clublulu399 · 5 years ago

  Being from Austria, social housing is quality but there is a long list to wait. My brother waited close to 5 years to get the apartment he’s in now. It was well worth the wait.

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• JI

  @JimmuTennothefirst · 5 years ago

  One maybe important point missing here is that Vienna also has an excellent public transport system owned and managed by the city. When they develop a new part of town public transportation is often finished first which significantly helps to create affordable housing, high density and desirable housing units. The example given &quot;Seestadt&quot; got a direct subway line making it a relative convenient place to live despite the relative remote location.

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• EV

  @evanholmes9416 · 5 years ago

  As someone who works in the affordable housing industry in the US, the most staggering thing to me from the video was construction costs being HALF in Vienna than what they are in Seattle. If construction costs in the US would be cut in half, I think the housing supply could increase exponentially if paired with upzoning large amounts of land to multifamily &amp; mixed use.

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• PE

  @peterseverin517 · 5 years ago

  Bloomberg: <b>uploads this</b><br>Me: <b>grabs popcorn and heads straight for the comments</b>

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• JI

  @jimmy8mbb · 5 years ago

  Any country also can achieve this IF the government is NOT in cahoot with developers

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• CR

  @creative.money_eu · 5 years ago

  As someone from Vienna, I feel like I should really apply for one of these buildings haha

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• SU

  @sunrayz81 · 5 years ago

  Should do a clip on Singapore&apos;s public housing. About 80% of Singaporeans live in flats built by the Housing &amp; Development Board (HDB). These flats are modern in design, spacious and very affordable.

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