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How are land owners kept out of the voting & policy loop, to simply remove those annoying impediments? In the US I just assume nothing actually effective can e
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
How are land owners kept out of the voting & policy loop, to simply remove those annoying impediments?
In the US I just assume nothing actually effective can ever happen (on almost any topic really) because the people who would need to do it are all the same people who wouldn't like it, or are at least enriched by them.
- mschuster91 3y ago> How are land owners kept out of the voting & policy loop, to simply remove those annoying impediments? Vienna has been a social democrat (SPÖ) stronghold ever since the first democratic elections in the 1910s (called "Rotes Wien" for that reason), interrupted only during the association of Austria to Nazi Germany, and the Viennese population is proud of having their Gemeindewohnungen - calls to sell them off would probably lead to political obliviation of the idiot dumb enough to call for it. Even the far-right FPÖ didn't dare to go that far, all they attempted to want was a requirement to speak German (2011, [1]) or prioritise ethnic Austrians (2018, [2]). [1] https://www.derstandard.at/story/1297818846747/fpoe-nennt-deutsch-als-bedingung-fuer-gemeindewohnungen https://www.derstandard.at/story/1297818846747/fpoe-nennt-de... [2] https://www.vienna.at/fpoe-wien-will-vorteil-fuer-oesterreicher-bei-vergabe-von-gemeindebau-wohnungen/6003105 https://www.vienna.at/fpoe-wien-will-vorteil-fuer-oesterreic...