I've reported in the past too that in Austria as a whole, social housing residents on average have slightly higher incomes than private housing residents. Given these facts, Yglesias reasonably asks what problem social housing is solving that reduced regulations on private, market-rate housing wouldn't.Īs the Times article notes, residents of private housing in Vienna spend only a little bit more of their income on housing than social housing tenants. Yglesias also notes that the city's social housing units are also pretty small by American standards, reducing costs further.
In recent years, two-thirds of Vienna's new housing is also private, market-rate housing. The city boasts per capita construction rates that make it look more like a Sunbelt boomtown than "closed access" underbuilding cities like New York City or Los Angeles. Vienna isn't cheap because it builds social housing, he argues, but because it builds a lot of housing, period. Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias offers some pointed pushback to all this in his Slow Boring newsletter today. "These public and social housing projects can ensure permanent affordability, support mixed-income neighborhoods, and bring new assets onto public balance sheets." "State and local governments can take on this task by building millions of homes themselves, particularly for poor and working class people, that private developers won't construct," they write. For that to happen, the government should "just build the homes." Meanwhile, over at Slate, tenant organizer Daniel Denvir and researcher Yonah Freemark argue that no amount of new, private, for-profit housing development will make housing truly affordable. We could have those lower housing costs too, Mari says, if only Americans would abandon their obsession with mass home ownership and the subsidized mortgages that make it possible. That's contrasted with America as a whole where the average renter pays 30 percent of their income on rent (and much more in some higher-cost cities).
Mari also interviews a number of higher-income social housing residents who spend less than 10 percent of their earnings on housing. In Vienna, author Francesca Mari writes, 80 percent of city residents qualify for public housing, and social housing tenants spend only about a fifth of their post-tax income on housing. Last week, The New York Times published a long profile of Vienna, Austria's extensive, century-old social housing program that's turned the city into a "renter's utopia." The idea is to have the government build or subsidize housing developments in which units would be provided at generally below-market rates for people of all incomes.
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The shop also features an interactive wand table that invites visitors to test out those famous wands, plus there are more than 50 wands that you can buy, some of which were inspired by Wizarding World characters, locations, and props like the Golden Snitch wand, an exclusive Harry Potter New York item.The high cost and limited availability of housing in many American cities have some writers and wonks dreaming of a seemingly novel solution: social housing. Speaking of wands, you can gaze upon actual wands used in the movies (those of Bellatrix, Queenie, Newt, Ron, and Draco to name a few) in the Wand Shop. There’s a room dedicated to New York-exclusive merch as well as a room called Things That Must Be Named, where you can get all sorts of things personalized from Quidditch jerseys and journals to wands.
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Other themed-areas range from a confectionary modeled after Honeydukes (with the largest chocolate frog we’ve ever seen) to House of MinaLima, a magical space full of books, posters, and stationary just like you see in the beloved movies ( MinaLima is the brilliant design duo that delivered the graphic props for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies). INSIDER TIP Tickets for the VR experiences must be purchased in advance through the website and guarantee entry to the store (which means no need to deal with the virtual queue).
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