{"id":2663,"date":"2015-10-16T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2015-10-12T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:47:10","slug":"good-idea-community-real-estate-any-takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-community-real-estate-any-takers\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEA: Community Real Estate &#8211; Any Takers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a simple idea with lot of potential.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperatively-owned real estate could serve artists, nonprofits, or just about any community-minded group AND counter some of the challenges of gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>A group of New Yorkers  &#8220;came up with a brilliantly simple idea to take back their city.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is this: Anyone can join the co-op by pitching in $10. (There&#8217;s also a hardship fund so you won&#8217;t be turned away if you don&#8217;t have the cash on hand.) Then, members democratically choose a commercial space to purchase. Throw in some help from the org&#8217;s lawyers and a little community oversight, and you&#8217;ve got a property for local businesses to operate, for artists to work, and for community groups to organize \u2014 that&#8217;s guaranteed to have affordable rent forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more info, check out the video and links below.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/133045694\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nycreic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nycreic.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/new-economy\/neighbors-got-together-buy-vacant-buildings-renting-bike-shop-brewer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/new-economy\/neighbors-got-together-buy-vacant-buildings-renting-bike-shop-brewer<\/a><\/p>\n[source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/for-just-10-each-new-yorkers-are-taking-back-their-city-because-rent-is-too-damn-high\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/for-just-10-each-new-yorkers-are-taking-back-their-city-because-rent-is-too-damn-high<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a simple idea with lot of potential. Cooperatively-owned real estate could serve artists, nonprofits, or just about any community-minded group<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-community-real-estate-any-takers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17,3,34,32,52,10,56,5,70,9,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}