It wasn’t a frenetic start SPÖ samethe newly created party TV of Austria’s Social Democrats. A presenter was introduced at the Vienna event location Stage 3, as well as the station’s own slogan “We are one”, and the station’s spot even sounds like a news broadcast. However, the first live stream on YouTube was usually only followed by a low double-digit number. The red topic council was about something that is actually burning under society’s nails: housing and renting. And there, Vice Chancellor and Housing Minister Andreas Babler and his comrades made people sit up and take notice with an announcement that could probably spark discussions in the black-red-pink coalition: The Social Democrats are calling for a separate criminal offense for “rent usury.”
