the austrian government has created a legal framework that balances rights and obligations between the city authorities companies that manage private housing and the incoming migrants migrantoriented urban policy packages for large cities should differ from urban policy packages covering smaller towns but it should be acknowledged that internal migration affects not only cities but also towns and villages national authorities may wish to analyse the experience of the baltic sea countries in improving the system of public service provision to migrants by delinking it from registration status and using the existing identification number system ins instead tukmadieva