page_title: Gemeindebau
section_title: Characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Gemeindebau / Vienna / Characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Gall-Hof, Gemeindebau in Alsergrund, Vienna
context_page_description: Gemeindebau is a German word for "municipality building". It refers to residential buildings erected by a municipality, usually to provide public housing.
  Apartments in the building can be rented from the respective municipality.
context_section_description: Gemeindebauten in Vienna can be recognized by the following text (or similar) which can usually be found in large red letters above the main entrance:
  Wohnhausanlage der Gemeinde Wien errichtet in den Jahren 1925 bis 1927 aus den Mitteln der Wohnbausteuer
  (Residential estate of the Municipality of Vienna built from 1925 to 1927 financed from the revenues of the Residential Construction Tax).
  Larger Gemeindebauten are identified by their name. The names sometimes derive from the building's geographic location, but usually they are named after a person, sometimes after a famous freedom fighter (e.g., George Washington), but much more often after a famous socialist (e.g., Olof Palme) or a Viennese Social Democratic Party functionary.
  Today, about 600,000 people (not necessarily poor ones), about a third of the population of Vienna, live in apartments owned by the city. As the Social Democratic Party has been firmly in control of the municipal administration since World War II, opposition politicians sometimes claim that party members are more likely to be assigned an apartment.
caption: The Gall-Hof on the Döblinger Gürtel, in the District Alsergrund.
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