Vienna's housing alternatives

Portside - Between 50 and 60 percent of all Viennese live in permanently affordable, rent-stabilized subsidized dwellings.  These include 220,000 city-owned units and 200,000 non-profit co-operative flats built with municipal subsidies. Vienna’s 1,800 municipal housing estates alone are home to close to half a million citizens (out of a population of slightly under two million).  All of it together is referred to as “social housing”, which they think sounds better than “public housing”.  There has been a conscious effort to integrate the projects such that members of different social classes live next to each other, each paying a similar percentage of their income for rent. MORE