Around 20 percent of people living in Austria today are international migrants, states the study. Around 276,800 of those are refugees and asylum seekers. In comparison, Germany has around 15.7 percent and the UK and France 14 percent.
The researchers decided to look at the housing situation of refugees in particular because they felt that this area of refugees’ lives was understudied. More data has been gathered about their integration into the labour market or the healthcare system.