In Vienna, the Renters’ Utopia

Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? Photographer Luca Locatelli and journalist Francesca Mari took a closer look at the special case of Vienna, Austria.

When Eva Schachinger married at 22, she applied for public housing. Luckily, she lived in Vienna, which has some of the best public housing in the world. It was 1968. Eva was a teacher, and her husband, Klaus-Peter, was an accountant for the city’s p...

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