On May 23, 2023 the New York Times Magazine ran a story on Vienna's proudly long-lived system of affordable housing, a model of public infrastructure sure to provoke equal parts amazement and frustration in many an urban American. From the article:
... Experts refer to Vienna’s Gemeindebauten as “social housing,” a phrase that captures how the city’s public housing and other limited-profit housing are a widely shared social benefit: The Gemeindebauten welcome the middle class, not just the poor. In Vienna, a whopping 80 percent of residents qualify for public housing, and once you have a contract, it never expires, even if you get richer. Housing experts believe that this approach leads to greater economic diversity within public housing — and better outcomes for the people living in it. ...
Read the whole thing HERE.