The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria's capital city.
Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise
Where so many other cities have decided that they can't have public benches Vienna has decided to put in public hammocks:
If your city has N homeless people, the N best places to sleep will be occupied by homeless people. Crazy how most cities will choose to make everyone uncomfortable because they would rather see a homeless person sleep in the gutter than seeing them sleep on a bench or not seeing them because they have the human right of indoor shelter.
Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.
I'm incredibly jealous
Don't be jealous. Be angry. This isn't revolutionary or anything, it's just proper policy. Rent is higher elswhere not by chance but by design.
Oh I'm definitely angry too. I've been angry for years about how ass backwards my country is. We ought to have done this sort of policy decades before I was even born.