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Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 77670154" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>But then we're not really talking about the true Vienna model.</p><p></p><p>If we're talking about homelessness vs. having a home, yes, many people who are homeless will choose the latter regardless of who their neighbors are.</p><p></p><p>The vienna model, by design, was meant to have a broad mixture of haves and have nots and people from different backgrounds.</p><p></p><p>Upper middle class people in Vienna are eligible for social housing (in fact, being that the city owns and subsidizes so many of the units, it may not be all that avoidable).</p><p></p><p>Middle class and upper middle class people aren't in the position you're describing so that desperation factor isn't there.</p><p></p><p>For example, converted to USD, a 90k income would be eligible for some form or level of subsidized social housing in Vienna. Most people making 90k aren't having to choose between homelessness and sleeping on someone else's couch with or without socialized housing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And, I may be so bold to suggest that with how polarized things are in the US, plenty of people from both factions would opt for the couch of an ally rather than a subsidized apartment that would make them neighbors with <insert political pejorative here>.</p><p></p><p>The country is currently full of a bunch of college kids going to expensive universities (and who have parents with money) who are opting to sleep in tents outside rather than stay in provided dorm facilities provided by school administrators in order to "prove a point" about an issue they're undereducated in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 77670154, member: 123415"] But then we're not really talking about the true Vienna model. If we're talking about homelessness vs. having a home, yes, many people who are homeless will choose the latter regardless of who their neighbors are. The vienna model, by design, was meant to have a broad mixture of haves and have nots and people from different backgrounds. Upper middle class people in Vienna are eligible for social housing (in fact, being that the city owns and subsidizes so many of the units, it may not be all that avoidable). Middle class and upper middle class people aren't in the position you're describing so that desperation factor isn't there. For example, converted to USD, a 90k income would be eligible for some form or level of subsidized social housing in Vienna. Most people making 90k aren't having to choose between homelessness and sleeping on someone else's couch with or without socialized housing. And, I may be so bold to suggest that with how polarized things are in the US, plenty of people from both factions would opt for the couch of an ally rather than a subsidized apartment that would make them neighbors with <insert political pejorative here>. The country is currently full of a bunch of college kids going to expensive universities (and who have parents with money) who are opting to sleep in tents outside rather than stay in provided dorm facilities provided by school administrators in order to "prove a point" about an issue they're undereducated in. [/QUOTE]
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