Look at this building. A beautiful old estate with expansive inner courtyards full of ancient trees in one of Viennas most expensive districts.

It's also public subsidised housing. And that's why our system of public housing works.
Public housing in Vienna is high quality and dispersed over all districts - thus both dampening the effects of gentrification and taking away any stigma.

It's also available to everyone but if you earn more, you are less likely to quickly get one and get less subsidised
Thus the bon mot of the "house where the construction worker and the professor are neighbours" came to be
It also creates competition for the private sector without killing it - allowing both to thrive
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