Social(ist) Housing – Housing as Public Interest, Political Demand, and Architectural Task

The “Vienna Modell” is today regarded in Europe and beyond as a paradigm for social housing and thus for a welfare-state approach to crisis-like phenomena in metropolitan housing supply, which have been exacerbated by urban growth and the capitalization of urban space. Nevertheless, rising social inequality in Vienna is also becoming increasingly apparent: In the private rental sector, 43 percent of tenants’ housing costs exceed 40 percent of their income. This hits low-income households dependent on private-market housing particularly hard.

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– An opposition to free-market doctrine, as in Patrick Schumacher’s Urban Policy Manifesto