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Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
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<blockquote data-quote="Whyayeman" data-source="post: 77670877" data-attributes="member: 415320"><p>Either of these distant possibilities would be an odd set-up. I doubt if many people in Vienna are ever faced with comparable difficulties. We know (see above) a wide range of Viennese live in local authority housing. Vienna is not a homogeneous society and never has been but it is evidently not the issue suggested here.</p><p></p><p>The alternative to social housing is of course the private sector. I gather that is in something of a mess in the USA. The UK experience of declining social provision under Thatcherite policies is another case where right-wing ideology has had an enormous effect on the housing market, as it is referred to here in the UK.</p><p></p><p>Social housing in the UK was intended for and almost exclusively lived in by working class families. In the eighties and nineties local tenants were encouraged to buy after a qualifying time in residence. This has reduced the available stock to almost nothing. The private sector likes to build bigger, more expensive houses and people who cannot afford them are forced into private tenancies. Housing in the UK is now in a desperate state.</p><p></p><p>I think most of us here would <em>love</em> the Viennese model.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whyayeman, post: 77670877, member: 415320"] Either of these distant possibilities would be an odd set-up. I doubt if many people in Vienna are ever faced with comparable difficulties. We know (see above) a wide range of Viennese live in local authority housing. Vienna is not a homogeneous society and never has been but it is evidently not the issue suggested here. The alternative to social housing is of course the private sector. I gather that is in something of a mess in the USA. The UK experience of declining social provision under Thatcherite policies is another case where right-wing ideology has had an enormous effect on the housing market, as it is referred to here in the UK. Social housing in the UK was intended for and almost exclusively lived in by working class families. In the eighties and nineties local tenants were encouraged to buy after a qualifying time in residence. This has reduced the available stock to almost nothing. The private sector likes to build bigger, more expensive houses and people who cannot afford them are forced into private tenancies. Housing in the UK is now in a desperate state. I think most of us here would [I]love[/I] the Viennese model. [/QUOTE]
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