The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city
theguardian.com
Part of the reason Schranz’s apartment is so affordable is simple: it’s owned by the city. In Vienna, that is (almost) the norm. The landlord of approximately 220,000 socially rented apartments, it is the largest home-owning city in Europe (in London, which has more than 800,000 socially rented apartments, they are owned by the local councils)
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Not when there's "passive income" to be made!
The more I think about landlording the more perverse it seems. It's right up there with for-profit prisons and hospitals.
And thus a Georgist was born.