The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
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The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise
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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
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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.
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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.
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Where so many other cities have decided that they can't have public benches Vienna has decided to put in public hammocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw2ZrC_2L1o&t=660
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.