Public housing projects worked great for Vienna (Austria). Even though a third of Vienna's population (2.4 million) lives in public housing [1] today, Vienna h

Public housing projects worked great for Vienna (Austria). Even though a third of Vienna's population (2.4 million) lives in public housing [1] today, Vienna has one of the highest standards of living in the world. [2][3] There're a lot of things that I don't like about Austrian policy, but not having masses of homeless people roaming the streets is certainly not of them. > 2) This creates classic housing projects problems which inevitably turn into centers for crime, over time deteriorating neighborhoods and creating tension that is bad for everyone. Depends on how well it is implemented. Here they are distributed across the whole city thus preventing concentration of the poor in one neighborhood. There are still parts of the city where more poor or rich people live, but there is no part where you'll find only one type precisely because there is public housing everywhere. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_livable_cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_livable_cities