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There's no free lunch. Housing costs are effectively carried by immigrants and transplants: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Setting-the-record-st
by shay_ker 3mo ago
There's no free lunch. Housing costs are effectively carried by immigrants and transplants: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Setting-the-record-straight-on-the-Vienna-Social-Housing-Model-final.pdf?x91208 https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Setting-the-r...
In general, the Vienna model is very difficult to copy without being in extreme conditions: https://www.threads.com/@__smiz/post/Cxpz28CIkT6 https://www.threads.com/@__smiz/post/Cxpz28CIkT6
- Plasmoid 3mo agoMany people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.
- tomjakubowski 3mo agoHuh? I thought that Vienna's partition period following WWII lasted more like ten years than sixty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria
- eigenspace 3mo agoVienna was under occupation for 10 years but was never partitioned. There was mostly free movement of people and goods between the zones.
- hackandthink 3mo agoBerlin was divided. Like Berlin, Vienna had occupation zones, but there was never a wall between them.
- eigenspace 3mo agoThe reason "many people dont know" about that is that it didnt happen. You just made it up.
- tptacek 3mo agoThat's a pretty uncivil way to say "you're wrong". People are wrong about things all the time; I'm sure you have been too.