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How does Vienna ration housing - social or otherwise - if not via price?

• ben_w 10mo ago
  Your reply suggests you're thinking inside a very strange (to me) box. Have you considered… not rationing housing? As in, you can actually pay people to build more houses, houses are not a fixed resource. Likewise roads, schools, shopping centres etc., they're all things you can just pay to get built. Only thing a little harder amongst the usual talking points is hospitals, but that's because medical qualifications take so long, not because you can't do it.
  • hdgvhicv 10mo ago
    Except we know it’s not possible to just provide the required supply
    • ben_w 10mo ago
      On the contrary, we have plenty of historical examples where we did exactly that. Home construction per year over in the last century in the UK: https://fullfact.org/economy/house-building-england/ https://fullfact.org/economy/house-building-england/ And Germany since 1950: https://www.dba-bau.com/news/seit-1950-wurden-in-der-bundesrepublik-deutschland-durchschnittlich-405-000-neue-wohnungen-pro-jahr-fertiggestellt/ https://www.dba-bau.com/news/seit-1950-wurden-in-der-bundesr... Note they were higher in the past.