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Social mix and the city: Council housing and neighbourhood income inequality in Vienna

Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer
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Tamara Premrov: European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 4, 752-769

Abstract: The Austrian capital of Vienna is widely acknowledged as one of the most livable cities, featuring a unique model of council housing that accounts for roughly 25% of all residential dwellings. This paper studies whether the broad provision of council housing is linked with a higher social mix in the neighbourhood. The analysis is based on administrative wage tax data at a small-scale raster grid of 500 × 500 meter with neighbourhood income inequality as an indicator for the social mix. While council housing is widely spread across the city, we find distinct spatial clusters of high and low income and inequality. Spatial econometric models show that council housing in Vienna is associated with lower income areas but slightly correlates with higher neighbourhood income inequality. These findings suggest that well-designed public housing policies may contribute to a higher social mix in a city.

Keywords: administrative data; council housing; neighbourhood income inequality; social mix; Vienna; è¡Œæ”¿æ•°æ ®; å…¬è ¥ä½ æˆ¿; è¡—åŒºæ”¶å…¥ä¸ å¹³ç­‰; ç¤¾ä¼šæ··å ˆ; 维也纳 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980221119408

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