FPÖ Criticizes Condition of Municipal Buildings Before Vienna Election

The city's housing policy is also a topic in the ongoing election campaign for the Vienna election taking place in a week and a half: Both the Freedom Party and the Greens identified numerous grievances in the city's housing policy on Wednesday. While the FPÖ mainly criticizes significant structural deficiencies in Vienna's municipal housing, the Greens presented a new model for a vacancy tax on Wednesday due to the estimated 80,000 vacant apartments.

It would be clearly evident that SPÖ Mayor Michael Ludwig "slept through" the renovation of municipal housing during his time as housing councilor, said FPÖ top candidate Dominik Nepp at a press conference. This has resulted in a renovation backlog of up to 10 billion euros. Numerous buildings are at risk of collapse, unaddressed water damage leads to mold, and broken windows "make a dignified life partially impossible," Nepp explained. He cited buildings on Handelskai or Baumgartenstraße as concrete examples. At the same time, buildings are being constructed only for those entitled to asylum and those with subsidiary protection. The municipal housing residents do not understand this, Nepp is certain.