i've been asked a number of times why the median new social housing project in vienna costs so much lower than cities like seattle or SFO.

anyone want to take a stab? median new social housing building in vienna looks a bit like this.

should be noted these are generally higher quality buildings, conforming to more stringent energy codes - most of what we build in the US would be illegal in cities like bienna or munich

also the developer competitions in vienna generally incentivize a mix of unit types too - so generally a broad diversity of unit types, studio to 3 BRs.

even in munich, they're building passivhaus-ish mass timber social housing for ~$150/sf https://twitter.com/holz_bau/status/1119444722546892800?s=20