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The Documentary Podcast

Vienna: Getting housing right

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Affordable housing is in widespread crisis. Many cities around the world have failed to build enough houses with good design and make living in them affordable – whether rented or bought. This effects millions, especially young people. One place which seems to have a far better record is Vienna. Rents are modest, the housing is high quality, there’s a good social mix with new estates designed with everyone in mind. So how has the City achieved this? And with pressures like a growing right to buy ethos, how sustainable all this in the face of future challenges? While the great Social Democratic tradition that Vienna’s housing embodies seems to have faded or disappeared across much of Europe, here it seems to have thrived. Is Vienna’s housing dream a one-off, or can it be a place everywhere else can learn from? Reporter: Chris Bowlby Producer: Jim Frank

Transcript

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At normal transactions.

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It's a kind of cyber attack on a bank.

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Ten of millions of dollars.

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Something I don't think anybody has seen before.

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It's a cyber criminal group.

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From the BBC World Service.

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It was really like in the movies.

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Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to assignment.

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For many, especially young people,

0:23.0

finding good quality affordable housing

0:25.0

has become increasingly difficult.

0:27.0

But has one European city found the answer?

0:30.0

Chris Bulby has been finding out.

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I love it because it gets so many different people

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into one community.

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BBC World Service.

0:45.0

I'm Chris Bulby and this is assignment.

0:49.0

Think of the Austrian capital Vienna

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when it may be music or cream cakes that spring to mind.

0:54.0

Perhaps magnificent Habsburg palaces.

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