The fact that Viennese housing is admired worldwide is not just a story that Austrians tell themselves. US Democrat Zohran Mamdani, who belongs to the left wing of the party and currently has a good chance of becoming mayor of New York, campaigned with an affordable housing program – based on the Vienna model. “The majority in Vienna enjoys something that is considered almost utopian in New York,” explained the admirer of Red Vienna in an article for the progressive think tank The Gravel Institute in 2020.
