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, ...

The chief of staff for Councilor Candace Avalos broke down the costs of their recent taxpayer-funded trip to Austria in a blog post.

Councilors will spend six days learning about social housing, which Vienna implemented starting in the early 20th century to subsidize and regulate units.

Conversations about social housing often become polarized around examples with widely differing outcomes: robust and fully funded social housing in places like Vienna, Austria, or on the other hand, ...

(L-R) Andreas Babler, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPOe), Christian Stocker, leader of he Austrian People's Party (Oevp) and Beate Meinl-Reisinger, leader of NEOS – The New ...

The high cost and limited availability of housing in many American cities have some writers and wonks dreaming of a seemingly novel solution: social housing. The idea is to have the government build ...

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, ...