Österreich nahm das Stigma aus dem sozialen Wohnungsbau. Folgendes könnte Kanada lernen | CBC News

Vienna has had no population growth over the last century. Those few who do move there have to wait two years before they can apply for social housing, after which they must wait on average two years on a waitlist before being offered a place (not of their choosing) to live.

A huge number of these apartments are passed down generation to generation, with rents set based on the income someone’s grandfather was making when he was a student 60 years ago. Then they’re rented in the black market to those many people who don’t have access to social housing.

It’s really just an extremely inefficient form of property. What Vienna does not have is a system whereby someone who doesn’t have any form of home ownership can easily access affordable housing.

Vienna has had a pretty much stagnant population since WWII. It works there because they aren’t receiving five or six figures of growth annually and thus they don’t have to build a G7 nation’s worth of housing annually (which doesn’t happen here anyways) just to tread water.

Yet another article that laments the lack of European or Asian outputs without mentioning that to get those outputs, you need European or Asian *inputs*. See also, public transit articles that showcase Singaporean or Japanese trains (where you are not allowed to skip paying, be a public nuisance or do drugs without being carted to prison immediately), or European walkable cities (where the people who actually live in those walkable areas are the upper crust who pay dreadfully high rents that the average wage slave in Canada could never afford, and the hoi polloi live in the commuterbelt which tourists never see which surprise, are often still car-dependent).