In cities worldwide, the housing question has returned. As demands and proposals by housing movements have grown bolder, city governments are implementing new policies, ranging from small tweaks to major overhauls. This paper takes a close look at New York City, Berlin and Vienna, assessing their current housing policy landscapes. We evaluate to what extent those cities’ recent housing reforms depart from the dominant, neoliberal policy landscape of recent decades and can be categorized as ‘post-neoliberal’. We do so through the criteria of affordability, decommodification and democratization. The three selected cities display varying histories of housing systems and neoliberalization, enabling us to search for post-neoliberal policies in three distinct institutional contexts. We find a common pattern across cases: recent reforms have improved affordability and dampened hyper-commodification, but little has been done to address the democratization of housing and planning systems. By way of conclusion, we discuss some of the structural factors that impede attempts at developing a genuinely post-neoliberal transformation of local housing policies.

在世界各地的城市中，住房问题又回来了。随着住房运动的要求和提议变得越来越大胆，城市政府正在实施新的政策，从小调整到大修。本文仔细研究了纽约，柏林和维也纳，评估了它们当前的住房政策前景。我们评估了这些城市最近的住房改革在多大程度上偏离了近几十年来占主导地位的新自由主义政策格局，可以归类为“后新自由主义”。我们通过可负担性，非商品化和民主化的标准来做到这一点。三个选定的城市展示了不同的住房制度和新自由化历史，使我们能够在三种不同的制度背景下寻找新的后民主政策。我们发现各种情况之间存在一个共同的模式：最近的改革提高了人们的承受能力，抑制了过度商品化，但是在解决住房和计划系统的民主化方面做得很少。作为结论，我们讨论了一些阻碍真正发展新的地方住房政策的努力的结构性因素。