Councilor Candace Avalos defended the trip, saying that social housing, which is prevalent in Vienna, may be the solution to housing affordability in Portland.
PORTLAND, Oregon — This week, about 20 people, including three city councilors and their chiefs of staff, are heading on a taxpayer-funded work trip abroad to see how social housing works in Vienna, Austria.
Social housing, or public housing, is housing owned and operated by government or nonprofits rather than developers and property managers and where rents are set at an affordable rate. Sixty percent of Vienna’s population lives in social housing.
“We’re not planning the trip; we are joining a
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