Social Housing in Vienna: Is it as good as it seems?

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• PW

  @pwp8737 · 2 years ago

  watching this from my 50m2 studio apt in San Francisco where I pay $2550/month. I'm envious of the freedom that having a reasonable rent would allow.

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• TI

  @timea03 · 1 year ago

  What they forget to tell here that this option is only available for long-term-Viannese people, like who've been living there since their childhood, and for people who are really in need of it (single parents with several children, big familys with a low income, sick people). If you move to Vienna from a different state of Austria, or you're a foreigner with a stabil income, most likely you'll only get the chance to finance this concept with your tax, but you'll need to rent something on the private market which costs twice as much. It's still considered affordable compared to the big cities of other countries, but they mostly don't mention that not everyone is equal in front of the Viannese social housing.

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• ME

  @mellowmike6263 · 2 years ago

  I live in Vienna now and one of the surprising things is the that youth here don&apos;t even realise how good they have it.<br><br>I&apos;ve had multiple conversations in which people were complaining about the rent and talking about a &quot;housing crisis&quot; mentally importing issues from other countries presumably due to their interactions on social media.<br><br>They were very shocked and resilient to the idea that places like London and even Amsterdam have rent prices of 2-3x at least

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• TH

  @ThomasBoyd-tx1yt · 2 years ago

  Yes system excellent Vienna Austria it Mixed economy.

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• MI

  @michaelplunkett5124 · 2 years ago

  My daughter lives in Vienna. It’s a wonderful place and extremely affordable, probably 1/3 the cost of Chicago. Marvelous transit system. No crime. It’s hard to find anything wrong. Red Vienna seems to have left a wonderful legacy. It’s a great example of what good government can do. A shame other cities haven’t emulated it.

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• EA

  @Earth098 · 2 years ago

  Vienna provides a hope for the rest of the world. Meaning that we can develop highly quality cities while being affordable to live, at the same time. In most parts of the world these two are considered as oxymoronic.

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• ER

  @ErikaKooo · 2 years ago

  State should make a differentiation between people that buy their first flat and those who invest. Higher interest rates target latter, but hit simple people. Many of us with good salaries can’t even afford first deposit, while there is a lot of flats being sold and just stand empty

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• PK

  @pk4win1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Lisbon is much smaller then vienna and rome and madrid are only a bit larger...

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• TH

  @ThomasBoyd-z8y · 11 months ago

  Lived in High rise Flat in Kirkton Avenue Floor 21&apos;it was good. Went bad 1997 to 2001 Labour government England London yes run Scotland. Excellent video. Polish up Social housing Austria Vienna 🇦🇹.

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• JM

  @jM-ez7fq · 2 years ago

  How come Ireland 🇮🇪 and 🇬🇧 Britain can&apos;t learn from this city and country

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• 2E

  @2esc2esc · 6 months ago

  The population in Austria is not increasing as fast as many countries around the world that helps them considerably in how fast they can build housing and the surrounding infrastructure.

• CA

  @carolinematta5764 · 2 years ago

  Personally prefer a small private apartment to Gemeinde as most of those buildings are complexes with heavy architecture.