The social housing secret: how Vienna became the most livable city

Becasue that's what the Vienese people voted for and keep voting for since 1945. So even if you also want to vote yourselves subsidized housing in your city right now, unless you can turn back time to change your city's policies, it's unlikely your own city will be able to buy up over half the private properties in town now, turn them into social housing and then rent them out to you at discount prices today. It will be financial and politicla suicide to do that in today's market anywhere on the planet.

It's also how Vienna is the only city in Austria with so much subsidized housing, with the rest of the country relying on private ownership and private rent, nor can the rest be like Vienna today even if they wished due to the issue mentioned above.

>The cost of non subsidized housing is in line with Hamburg

With lower wages than Hamburg and higher consumer prices.