The Archive · 1935

VIENNA'S HOMES FOR WORKERS Flats Rented at Eight Schillings Monthly, Described

by Prof.

Tandler Modern working-class flats for the equivalent of Shanghai $4 a month: It would sound like a fairy tale in almost any country, but in the capital of Austria it is actually a dream come true, And although the fern "workmen's flats" usually mplies dreary buildings situated in slum districts, the former Govern= ment of Vienna who began, the work of building apartment houses accommodate about 100,000 families in 1922, had something vastly different in mind, more flats. Then, with the capital thus written off, even with the small sums the tenants pay, The though of course as yet the buildings Work was proceeding apace, when the revolution came and the bour~ Jgeols Government took over the 'The report was received of the Prince of Wales' visit to the model ate on his last morning in Vienna. It happens that Professor Tandler, who was. Commissioner in Charge of Public Welfare and Social Work in Vienna during the years that the buildings were being erected, is now in Shanghai as Visiting Pro~ fessor of Anatomy to the National Medical College of Shanghai. Inter. viewed by a "North-China Herald" representative, the Professor _con-teased himself delighted to give a detailed description of the fa's. For years he said, plans for their gradual erection were his greatest pre~ occupation, "and their success his dearest wish,

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