Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing? Swimming Pools, Private TV Channels & More

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as proof that government-provided housing can be attractive, in housing and homelessness threads.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Channel 4 Documentaries

Topic

social housing in vienna

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• That's just not true. The problem is that government housing is so terrible that sleeping on the street is preferable to some. Public housing in Austria is high quality, cheap and plentiful, with two-thirds of Viennese residents living in it. Coincidentally, homelessness is a non-issue …

• Vienna is a great example. [LINK] (Youtube: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All) [VIDEO] (Youtube: Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing?)

• Government can build if private industry will not. If you argue "we can only fix this with the private sector and private investment", welp, we tried that and we're plain ol' fucked at the moment. Vienna is a great example. [LINK] (Youtube: Vienna's Radical Idea? …