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> Someone's going to do this right and make a big success. Berkeley has tons of student co-ops which are arguably a success in that the number of students appl
by klipt 11y ago
> Someone's going to do this right and make a big success.
Berkeley has tons of student co-ops which are arguably a success in that the number of students applying to live there is much larger than the available space, and there are long waiting lists.
What I don't understand is trying to shoe-horn this into the mold of a for-profit startup. Co-ops can easily be run co-operatively as non-profits by their members.
- hugh4 11y agoA bunch of people living in a shared house on a non-profit basis isn't even a co-op, that's generally just a "share house". Share houses are fine, but they have disadvantages, such as the lack of a nice centralised way of finding and moving into one, and the fact that stuff like finding new tenants and negotiating interpersonal conflicts between tenants and kicking problem tenants out all have to be done by the residents themselves, and many (not all) people would rather just outsource all that stuff to a central authority. So I think there's definitely room in the market for a company which deals with all that guff for you, in exchange for charging a somewhat higher rent.