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How would apartment complexes be sold then?

• kelseyfrog 4y ago
  Sell them to land trusts, co-operatives, and housing unions. There are creative and viable alternatives.
  • astrange 4y ago
    Most of those are bad; at least if a landlord is only interested in money they’ll take your money. In the “decommodified” forms, you can’t live there unless the manager personally likes you. With government public housing you can lose it if you break the law (hope you never smoke weed) or if the populace elects a racist government and you’re a minority. Commodifying housing helped black people in the South because they could actually buy prefab houses from Sears.
    • kelseyfrog 4y ago
      Sorry, but I'm not sure where you got government housing from. I specifically omitted it to avoid that dialog option.
      • astrange 4y ago
        That’s the one people usually want. Co-ops of course are much more racist than that.