Germany's "NON-CAPITALISM SOLUTION" to the Housing Crisis

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* Housing Cooperatives, or in German a "Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft", offers affordability, safety, below the market rates and lifelong tenancy, if you wish. No landlord. No mortgage. Could this be the affordable housing crisis that we have all been searching for? Go to https://ground.news/ashton to see what mainstream media isn’t showing you. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:05 What is a Housing Cooperative? 06:41 Housing Cooperatives as Social Housing 08:41 Why are they so popular in Germany? 13:10 How Co-Ops Could Help the US Housing Crisis 16:41 So What’s the Downside? Episode No. 155 📷 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/typeashton/ 🤳🏻 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@typeashton 🖥 Website: https://www.blackforestfamily.com 📧 E-mail: [email protected] S𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗠𝗘 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TypeAshton * All Sources Cited Additionally At the End of the Video * Deutsche Welle. (2023, July 20). Germany: New Housing Construction Set to strongly decline – DW – 07/19/2023. dw.com. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-new-housing-construction-set-to-strongly-decline/a-66290243 DIETRICH, U. (2022). Motivation to active participation in a collective: Potentials of an emerging housing cooperative in Freiburg, Germany. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.2495/sc220141 Experts expect steep price increases for real estate worldwide. Press release | ifo Institute. (2023, July 31). https://www.ifo.de/en/press-release/2023-07-31/experts-expect-steep-price-increases-real-estate-worldwide Goethe Institute (2017) “Housing Cooperatives: Community instead of Property”, Frank Kaltenbach. Grant, S. (2024, May 16). Can co-operatives resolve the housing crisis?. Medium. https://medium.com/coping-with-capitalism/can-co-operatives-resolve-the-housing-crisis-3c32ae7607db Kinkartz, S. (2023, August 4). Germany: Housing is almost unaffordable – DW – 08/03/2023. dw.com. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-housing-is-almost-unaffordable/a-66432276 Marketinginitiative der Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften Deutschland e.V. (2024) “How Housing Cooperatives work” National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (2024) “What Is A Co-Op?” The housing market needs more condos. why are so few being built?. Urban Institute. (2022, January 31). https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/housing-market-needs-more-condos-why-are-so-few-being-built