The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_n_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0

Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise

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drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Where so many other cities have decided that they can't have public benches Vienna has decided to put in public hammocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw2ZrC_2L1o&t=660

Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 1y

If your city has N homeless people, the N best places to sleep will be occupied by homeless people. Crazy how most cities will choose to make everyone uncomfortable because they would rather see a homeless person sleep in the gutter than seeing them sleep on a bench or not seeing them because they have the human right of indoor shelter.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.

I'm incredibly jealous

azolus@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't be jealous. Be angry. This isn't revolutionary or anything, it's just proper policy. Rent is higher elswhere not by chance but by design.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y

Oh I'm definitely angry too. I've been angry for years about how ass backwards my country is. We ought to have done this sort of policy decades before I was even born.

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 4 pts · 1y (5 replies)

doh. I was hoping this was going to be somewhere in the us.

Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What's it like living with that kind of hope?

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

very disappointing.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

It is demoralising looking at this image, and knowing with a palpable certainty, before even checking, that this is absolutely not happening in my country.

zante@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
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speedingcheese@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Nah, the us gets the guy that says not to make public housing too comfortable