Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
* 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 isnβt 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 Whatβs the Downside?
Episode No. 155
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* All Sources Cited Additionally At the End of the Video *
Deutsche Welle. (2023, July 20). Germany: New Housing Construction Set to strongly decline β DW β 07/19/2023. dw.com. 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. doi.org/10.2495/sc220141
Experts expect steep price increases for real estate worldwide. Press release | ifo Institute. (2023, July 31). ifo.de/en/press-release/2023-07-31/experts-expect-steep-price-increases-real-estate-worldwide
Goethe Institute (2017) βHousing Cooperatives: Community instead of Propertyβ, Frank Kaltenbach.
Grant, S. (2024, May 16). Can co-operatives resolve the housing crisis?. Medium. medium.com/coping-with-capitalism/can-co-operatives-resolve-the-housing-crisis-3c32ae7607db
Kinkartz, S. (2023, August 4). Germany: Housing is almost unaffordable β DW β 08/03/2023. dw.com. dw.com/en/germany-housing-is-almost-unaffordable/a-66432276
Marketinginitiative der Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften Deutschland e.V. (2024) βHow Housing Cooperatives workβ
National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (2024) βWhat Is A Co-Op?β The housing market needs more condos. why are so few being built?.
Urban Institute. (2022, January 31). urban.org/urban-wire/housing-market-needs-more-condos-why-are-so-few-being-built
* 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 isnβt 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 Whatβs the Downside?
Episode No. 155
π· Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/typeashton
π€³π» TikTok: tiktok.com/@typeashton
π₯ Website: blackforestfamily.com
π§ E-mail: typeashton@gmail.com
Sπ¨π£π£π’π₯π§ π π
π Patreon: 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 β DW β 07/19/2023. dw.com. 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. doi.org/10.2495/sc220141
Experts expect steep price increases for real estate worldwide. Press release | ifo Institute. (2023, July 31). ifo.de/en/press-release/2023-07-31/experts-expect-steep-price-increases-real-estate-worldwide
Goethe Institute (2017) βHousing Cooperatives: Community instead of Propertyβ, Frank Kaltenbach.
Grant, S. (2024, May 16). Can co-operatives resolve the housing crisis?. Medium. medium.com/coping-with-capitalism/can-co-operatives-resolve-the-housing-crisis-3c32ae7607db
Kinkartz, S. (2023, August 4). Germany: Housing is almost unaffordable β DW β 08/03/2023. dw.com. dw.com/en/germany-housing-is-almost-unaffordable/a-66432276
Marketinginitiative der Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften Deutschland e.V. (2024) βHow Housing Cooperatives workβ
National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (2024) βWhat Is A Co-Op?β The housing market needs more condos. why are so few being built?.
Urban Institute. (2022, January 31). urban.org/urban-wire/housing-market-needs-more-condos-why-are-so-few-being-built
