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One in four Viennese lives in municipal housing. Add subsidised housing and more than 60% of residents live in homes whose rules are set by the city. The model was born between the wars: “Red Vienna” delivered more than 61,000 homes, funded by a dedicated tax. A century later, the city still buys land, builds and selects projects through competitions. For a company, a landlord, a local authority or an HR team looking to house its staff, Vienna shows what a city becomes when it treats housing as infrastructure.
More than a kilometre long, the Karl-Marx-Hof had 1,382 flats for about 5,000 residents when it opened in 1930. Only 18% of the plot is built on: the rest is courtyards, gardens and facilities. In the former laundry, the Das Rote Wien exhibition tells the story of municipal housing.
In north-east Vienna, aspern Seestadt is being built on some 240 hectares for about 25,000 residents. The lake, parks, squares and streets take up half of it, and the U2 underground line reaches the centre in 25 minutes. Its team offers free visits to groups.
Opened by Caritas Vienna, magdas is Austria’s first “social business” hotel: it trains and employs people with a refugee background, in a team that speaks more than 24 languages. A way of seeing hospitality as both a trade and a welcome.
Photo credits : Jacek Dylag, Nikolai Kolosov, Carsten Ruthemann, Ceyda Çiftci, Arno Senoner (Pexels, Unsplash)
