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> Multi-family housing requires some organization to manage the building as a whole, which means either apartments or condos. So people will still be renters I
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> Multi-family housing requires some organization to manage the building as a whole, which means either apartments or condos. So people will still be renters
In eastern europe you own your apartment. The owners form a housing Association that own ms the building as a whole and the land.
- sokoloff 4y agoThat sounds like a condominium (an ownership structure that GP suggested).
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoIs that like a US thing? I am not familiar
- nostrademons 4y agoIt sounds like it, though I never thought that a condo might not be a worldwide thing. It's an ownership structure where you own the insides of your unit and can do what you want with it, but everything outside the walls (shared building, common areas, lawn, parking lots/garages, etc.) is owned by a homeowner's association (HOA). You pay the HOA monthly dues - sometimes small ones, sometimes large ones, depending on what they do for you - which are set by the HOA themselves, and the HOA can have rules on what you're allowed to do on the outside of your unit. Repairs to common building infrastructure is the HOA's responsibility, repairs to your unit is your responsibility. The HOA is controlled by a board of directors that are elected from the set of homeowners. You own the equity in your own unit and can resell it for a profit.
- sokoloff 4y agoLooks like it is called that in US and Canada and goes by various names in other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium#By_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium#By_country