ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the renewed housing question by placing the Vienna Model within the class dynamics of global capitalism. It strives to interrupt the claims of the Vienna Model of affordability, equality and commitment to subsidized housing – all of which are rooted in the supposed legacy of Red Vienna. The chapter reveals first how housing has remained a commodity from Red Vienna to the Vienna Model. Then, It identifies ways by which the inner tension of the housing commodity has been resolved, albeit temporarily, and thus historically and geographically transformed by specific class configurations in the wider processes of global capitalism. The chapter also demonstrates how the material, institutional and discursive aspects of inter-scalar capitalist state interventions have facilitated accumulation by reproducing surplus workers.
