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Hi John,
PowerSwitch is in Vienna, Austria! We brought together a group of housing organizers and elected leaders from across the US to travel to Vienna and Berlin to learn about community-controlled housing.
We’re here to study other housing models, take inspiration and practical guidance from them, and apply those learnings to our home cities.
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We'll be in Vienna for a few days to learn what social housing looks like in practice. Then, we’ll travel to Berlin to hear directly from organizers who are taking on big corporations and bringing housing in their city under community control.
Our first day was busy! We met with elected officials and learned about the political opportunities and factors that created the social housing system in Vienna, like progressive taxes, rent control, and a strong social safety net. Then we went on a tour of Karl-Marx-Hof, an enormous public housing project completed in 1930.
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Everything we learned and saw today really got us thinking about the political conditions we need in the US to make our housing visions come to life.
Tomorrow, we’re going to dig even deeper into nitty gritty details of making the system work and visit two new social housing projects. I’ll be posting all about our trip on Twitter [[link removed]] , Instagram [[link removed]] , and TikTok [[link removed]] — I hope you follow along!
Lauren Jacobs [[link removed]] Auf Wiedersehen,
Christina Rosales
Housing and Land Justice Director
PowerSwitch Action
1305 Franklin St.
Suite 501
Oakland, CA 94612
United States
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