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What can we really learn about housing from Vienna?

Mostly that it's good to build more housing

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Matthew Yglesias
May 30, 2023
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There’s a perennial fascination in certain circles with the success of Vienna’s large-scale social housing program, which really does seem nice (Vienna is a nice place in general) and which demonstrates that public ownership of a very large share of the housing stock is possible.

The city was recently described in the New York Times as a “renters’ utopi…

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