• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Then organise the renters, let them buy the house to transform it into syndicate or cooperative housing. Social apartment construction isn’t impossible.

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      The issue here is, in my country at least, the people who could possibly afford to buy one aren’t wanting to live in an apartment and the people who live in apartments aren’t capable of buying one.

      It’s not impossible, but it’s also very unlikely

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        It’s the only option though. Bulldozing nature to build more cheap low density housing is not a viable plan.

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          If it were the only option, it would be happening more.

          Just because the other options are bad doesn’t mean very much. They’re still happening.

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        ask yourself this: if the apartment is owned by a company who is in charge of bills?

        in the case witht he syndicate, the syndicate is in charge of the bills, the bills are split up among the members, this stuff all already exists btw.

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          yeah the apartment I rent, bills are already separate so it wouldn’t be that different. We’d still all be paying the water company and power company. And for garbage. Like we already do.

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          No way, that’s cool! Where in the US?

          I guess I would’ve thought that the collective unit is in charge of stuff like property taxes, but you can’t have that many names on a property deed, right? Or can you?

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              I suppose but HOAs are dicks. That’s a single controller. The above mentioned many people paying into the fund for taxes but what if one does not pay taxes? Do the rest suffer?

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            I only the know the version of that in Germany and Austria where the property is being held by a GmbH, similar to a LLC, whose half owned by an e.V., a registered voluntary association acting as the united juridicial person of the inhabitants and half owned by a syndicate e.V. that acts as insurance and solidarity among the syndicate and makes sure that no one can overtake and profit from the property. Inhabitants pay off rent-like loans and but can leave anytime. Rent is usually really low and acts as solidarity towards other houses.

            It’s called Mietshaussyndikat

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        bro a significant percentage of swedes live in housing co-ops, it’s literally a normal form of housing here, you’re not clever.

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          I get that my text came off as sarcastic. I wasn’t being clever.

          Let me retry:

          I think it sounds like a great idea but I have concerns such as, who will pay the community bills? Who will be in charge? And other related administrative duty questions.

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            Right, well again refer to the fact that this is a solved problem in many countries, including the US. Housing co-ops consist of a nonprofit cooperative organization that owns the building and then residents own the right to live in an apartment, which comes with a monthly fee for maintenance and voting rights within the co-op.

            It’s the same principle as HOAs owning and maintaining common infrastructure, just within a single building rather than a group of houses.