Who lives there now? Residualisation of social housing in Austria

Angel, S., Mundt, A. (2024):

In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 3/2024.

Across Europe, there is a trend to re-focus social housing on the most economically vulnerable groups (“residualisation”). The paper investigates whether this trend is also observed in Austria, a conservative welfare state with a social housing system open to a broad range of households and a long tradition of municipal housing.