“How Vienna took the stigma out of social housing – In some European cities living in social housing is a misfortune. In Austria’s capital it’s an indicator of high-quality urban life.”

More than 60 percent of the city’s 1.8 million inhabitants live in subsidized housing and nearly half of the housing market is made up of city-owned flats or cooperative apartments.  “Social housing policies in Vienna have been shaped by the political commitment that housing is a basic right,” Deputy Mayor Kathrin Gaal told POLITICO, adding that the city’s mission had been made simpler thanks to its determination to keep the massive stock of subsidized homes built during the past century in public hands. https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/