In its new magazine, the "New York Times" raves about Austrian rental concepts. "Imagine a tenant's paradise.

It might look like Vienna," the article reads. But is Vienna's housing market really the ultimate? Many residents see it differently. And: What else can Germany possibly learn from its neighboring country? The New York Times has used the municipal buildings in Alterlaa as a model for rents in America. The basic idea: social mixing, low-income earners should not be excluded.