Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents

Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by bobthepanda on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:33AM (#47434969)

It’s worth noting that a major confounding factor is that, unlike most cities with a housing crisis, Vienna is well below its population peak and so does not need to build nearly as much housing

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by ginko on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:22AM (#47436403)

During that peak Vienna’s housing situation was infamously bad though. You’d have single rooms shared by multiple families and beds being used by multiple people on a timetable.

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by bobthepanda on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:56PM (#47520902)

What city wasn’t that true of? Most cities with a housing crisis like New York had population growth on top of that, so Vienna just hasn’t had to walk and chew gum in that sense.

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by Paradigma11 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:29AM (#47436820)

Technically yes, but lol no. Population is about the same as at its peak and density (person/m2) was about four times that of today. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlafg%C3%A4nger https://www.demokratiezentrum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10...

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by bobthepanda on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:57PM (#47520920)

You could say that about every Industrial Revolution city. They just have also had to deal with absolute population growth as well.

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