[lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs?

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 18 19:00:29 PDT 2006


I know Bill has complained on here of being poor as sin as well, and although laws in Australia are undoubtedly different than the US, the fact that he incredibly has this thing up and going means he is probably as good a source for this type of information as anyone.

You said "leftists can't exactly point to them as a model if they don't live in them" -- but I don't know why leftists or anyone else couldn't point to them -- housing co-ops of the kind Bill is involved in -- as a model, just because they don't live already in them. I don't live in an anti-capitalist society, but I could point to various post-capitalist models as something I'd like to exist in, even though I don't exist in them now. We don't already have to be there to propose it as a good for the future.

-B.

Chuck wrote:

"Co-ops are one model of an alternative, but leftists can't exactly point to them as a model if they don't live in them or help create more housing options. I've been working on a cooperative housing project for the past two years with friends here in KC. We want to buy an apartment building in midtown KCMO and turn it into a cooperative. Unfortunately, it's probably easier to go get a professional job and get a morgage for single family home than it is to set up a limited equity co-op."



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