Residency in affordable housing is allowed for long periods of time, even subsidized further the longer that tenants reside in their units – strengthening community ties. The city tethers the affordability of housing to its land prices by buying land or reappropriating its land reserves, and heavily regulates developers’ use of the land, requiring profits to be capped and reinvested in affordable housing construction. In a Bloomberg CityLab documentary, housing experts explain the genius of the Viennese system: city intervention and long-term investment. On the contrary: housing is viewed as a public task and part of the services of general interest.”
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Says the city’s public housing authority, Wiener Wohnen: “ Vienna does not leave rents and land prices solely to the free market. Why? Since the early 20th century, the Austrian metropolis has prioritized the construction and maintenance of hundreds of thousands of units of subsidized housing, in which nearly sixty percent of its population resides. (The Met and Central Park can’t make up ground lost to deeply unaffordable housing.) And while over half of New Yorkers are overburdened by the cost of rent, only 18 percent of Vienna residents are similarly hard-pressed. While Vienna ranks first on the Global Livability Index, New York City is 51st. (Vienna is “Wien” in German, Austria’s main language) /BdXjjKMLG6
Happy Monday! We’re in Vienna with a delegation of 40+ housing organizers & electeds, learning about their social housing programs & lessons for NY.Ĭheck #SocialHousing #ViennaLessons & #WhenInWien this week to follow along A delegation of nearly 50 New Yorkers – including tenant advocates, housing experts, and local legislators – traveled to a city renowned for its premiere livability and social housing system: Vienna. What’s to be done? Look across the Atlantic.
Observe: an Empire State housing crisis of epic proportions. When a minimum wage worker would have to log 111 hours on the job each week to afford median rent in the city, there are no affordable units to spare.įactor in the deluge of post-Covid-moratorium eviction cases – and the shortage of housing court lawyers promised to low-income tenants by the city’s Right to Counsel legislation – and an “ all-time high” of over 64,000 New Yorkers sleeping in city-run shelters. Over the last few years, landlords and developers have successfully exempted hundreds of thousands of units subjected to rent-stabilization, one of the Big Apple’s only protections for its working-class and low-wage inhabitants when just over six percent live in municipal housing. In other words, as The City reported this week, one in ten rent-stabilized units are off the market, and landlords may be to blame by holding those affordable units hostage, “ warehousing ” units for leverage over housing laws. But it is hair-raisingly unconscionable that almost ninety thousand rent-stabilized units are currently sitting vacant – while the average rent surpassed $5,200 in Manhattan this summer. It shocks no one to read that housing in New York City is too expensive.
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