THE VIDEO SHELF · social housing
Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
A Bloomberg mini-documentary on how Vienna keeps housing affordable through large-scale public and social housing. It presents the city as a model strategy for others.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it in housing-cost threads as the standard example of government-built housing keeping rents down.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bloomberg Originals
- Topic
- social housing
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Which of these "affordable" options are you too good for: [LINK] Also recommend checking out this video about Vienna [VIDEO]
m_ke on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first timei watched a couple youtubes over the past few months on this -- if you supply at least some public housing, it can have an outsized ability to keep rents down: Bloomberg Originals: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All [VIDEO] About Here: The Non-capitalist …
readonthegoapp on Hacker News · 2023-05
In Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.Vienna is a great example. [VIDEO] (Youtube: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All) [LINK] (Youtube: Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing?)
toomuchtodo on Hacker News · 2023-11
In The US Housing Market Has Become an Impossible Mess
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