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Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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