‘Frozen’ Social Housing Policy in a Conservative Regime Such As Austria

Abstract

This paper aims to disentangle analytically the trends through the concept of “social housing” in Europe, especially in a Conservative-Corporatist regime such as Austria. This type of welfare state has been located in other countries like Germany, Italy and France according to Esping-Andersen analysis. In fact, the post-war history of Austrian housing can be said to display a number of similarities with its West German counterpart. Specifically, this analysis focus on the period from 1990 to 2000, which was fully analysed by diverse challenges. The article is looking for similarities and repercussions of ‘conservative’ social policy to reconstruct the ways of transmission between social policy and housing policy. This approach is an easy explanation, in a comparative way, of what it stands for social housing involvement and its divergences or convergences between European countries. Finally, the conclusion returns back into the particular housing condition that Austria has been lived in recent period. There would generally be also an emphasis on present housing policy.