• GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    God, if only people could just like pool their resources together to build homes or something…

    We could even call it something like “social housing,” and have it be a publically regulated service instead of treating housing as some sort of game of investment for the wealthy? No no, totally impossible…

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      1 year ago

      You also pretty much described what S&Ls were.

      Honestly wish they could make a comeback, but we’d need to ban them from becoming national organizations. Their biggest benefits were that they helped people get houses, provided proper financial advice, and kept money local.