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."