In 2024, the first apartment that Max Schranz moved to after leaving his parents' house was where many European youths dreamed. Schranz was only 26 years old at the time, but lived in a two-room apartment of 54 m2 wide, overlooking the capital *Venna (2004)**. The apartment is 10 minutes from the central station, located near cinemas, theatres, bars, and only 596 euros. The price was only a fraction of the size of apartments and similar positions in other major European cities.

You don't have to stake. The lease has no deadline. In theory, he might even transfer the contract to his children or siblings if he moved away. "My life is quite comfortable and low pressure. My friends in European cities also had to be jealous", Schranz said on *Guardian. *

While many other cities struggled with skyrocketed rent prices, partly due to the move of apartments to short-term rentals to serve tourists or to be left vacant by the protagonistics, Vienna again went against this trend. The city has been ranked for the world's most living rank, according to the report of the magazine *Economist. Deloitte audit stated the average rent rate here is only 30 percent of London, Paris, or Dublin.

  • Mohammad community home Matteotti-Hof in Vienna (2004). Image:Guardian*

Part of the reason for this price is that they belong to the city. In Vienna, this is almost normal. As of 2024, the city owned about 230,000 social apartments for rent, the largest in Europe. About 25% of Vienna's residents live in these apartments. If you add about 200,000 social cooperative apartments built with the city's support, more than half of the people in Vienna are living in these types of housing.

Many of these apartments were built a century ago, in Vienna's ambitious housing program after the end of World War I. At that time, the city was to take on large numbers of people losing their homes after the fall of the Habsburg Empire. The show was funded mainly by taxation against items and a luxury operation such as champagne or riding. However, most of the buildings owned by the Vienna administration were built after World War II.

Schranz's apartment is located in Theodic Körner-Hof - a combination of 14 blocks built from the 50s of the last century. The Viennans called these buildings "Gemindebauten" (Presidential housing). This term is somewhat philosophical behind the city's housing model.

"One of the important concepts to understand Vienna's approach to housing is social sustainability", Maik Novotny - Architectural critic of the Der Standard (2004) said. "To avoid the formation of slums and expensive social conflicts that accompany, the city actively spurs the people's coming from different backgrounds and income levels living together in one block. Social housing is not just for the poor."

Vienna has always held a dominant position over housing markets. "We have never been swept into the tendency to sell apartments that belong to the city, or housing that are subsidised as many other European cities to offset budget deficits. So our housing funds are still huge", Kathrin Galal - Vienna's deputy market said.

About 40 years ago, Vienna founded "The Buy of Land and Renovation of Cities". The fund holds approximately 3 million m2 acres (3 million m2) of land, including agricultural land or abandoned land, railway routes that are no longer used and the hospital is empty. This entire area was given only bids for the social housing company. In 2019, Vienna stipulated housing projects with a housing area of over 5,000 m2 that had to have two-thirds of the area as subsidy housing.

"With cities, the question is always whether they are strong enough to negotiate with landowners. And Vienna has a very good negotiating status", Harald Simons - economist in Berlin said on Guardian. The city's land purchase fund closely coordinated with the planning licensed agency. As a result, the city can make suitable agreements. Last year, Vienna set out to build 5,500 new Gemindebau apartments.

Many other cities in Europe also have a model of housing for rent, but have not reached the level of success as Vienna did.

At London (English), the number of houses of this type is generally still stable at approximately 70,000. However, their weight in the city's total housing funds is constantly dropping. Part of the reason was that many apartments were transferred to private ownership, through the "right-to-buty" program. In addition, the number of newly built houses did not keep up with London's population growth rate.

Many other cities face a similar shortage. Authorities * Berlin (German*) once said on the website that the lack of housing is considered particularly serious. In order to maintain the current social housing scale, Berlin needs to add 5,000 more per year. However, in 2022, only 4,000 were approved for financial assistance.

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  • An apartment project in Hangzhou (Chinese) May 2424 Image: VCG*

At ** China**, the Department of Housing and Development of the Capital - China Village in 2019 piloted the rental housing program in 13 cities, focusing on affordable housing development. They apply the preferential policies, such as simplifying the leveling procedure and financial support to address the difficulties that cities face during the development of these projects.

Huo Da, a 28-year-old tour guide at the South Lake, was one of the first to benefit from this pilot show. His apartment is located in a renovated building, in the central area, consisting of a bedroom and a bathroom.

All residents in the 99 apartment building were used for free in gyms, meeting rooms, and common kitchens. "The apartment is not large but comfortable, the design suits the youth's interests," he said on *China Daily. The rent here is only 9,000 people who suck (298) per month. The show does not require the income threshold with the applied person.

The rules of rent prices and the area of the apartment vary according to locality. For example, in the City of Su in the South Lake, the lease must be at least 30% lower than the market. The apartments typically have an area of under 60 m2. In Shanghai County, the cost of a one-room apartment, the area of 50-64 m2 at about 4,000 - 5,500 people per month, is about 20% lower than the market.

Over the past few years, Chinese officials have consistently provided new guidelines to help people to approach affordable housing. In addition to the public rental house model in cities, in 2021, officials stated that the type of new rent house was to be deployed by the government to support it. According to this, the apartments will have an area of no more than 70 m2, with a maximum price of 90% of the market. The goal is to settle housing difficulties for new urban residents, young people and other qualified groups by providing housing with lower rent prices than the market.