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Category Archives: Housing
10 years trying 7 approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers, here are the results so far
The Great Recession started in 2008 and everyone suffered– the Internet Archive hired 146 out-of-work parents, leveraging an Obama stimulus welfare-to-work program to scan books for the visually impaired. I had employees polled as to how they were doing financially, … Continue reading
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Successful German Model for Permanently Tenant-Friendly Housing
Started in 1989 and now made up of 107 apartment buildings in Germany, a network of housing projects called Mietshäuser Syndikat, have locked themselves into a structure that allows almost complete autonomy for each housing project, with a couple of … Continue reading
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Paper on systems like Foundation Housing
Housing for non-profit workers does not seem to be represented in this paper, but union housing, or permanently affordable housing is. And hence, I suggest worth reading. The paper from 1996 usefully describes experiences with Community Land Trusts in urban … Continue reading
Foundation Housing Talk at SoCap 2014
I had the opportunity to introduce Foundation Housing at the Social Capital Conference yesterday. Fun. This is a conference for people trying to figure out how to invest in things that have humanitarian benefits. Foundation Housing may be a new … Continue reading
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Creating Free and Open Societies
Creating Free and Open Societies From Free and Open Source Software, to Non-profit High-tech Organizations, to Debt-free Affordable Housing Brewster Kahle, the club, May 12, 2014, cc-by v3 msword pdf tl;dr summary: Public Licenses Rule (in software and … Continue reading
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Tagged club paper, debt-free housing, free software, non-profit, open source
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Foundation Housing: Permanently Affordable Housing in San Francisco Pitch
I had the pleasure of meeting with a district supervisor of San Francisco, Jane Kim, and found the #3 priority on her whiteboard was “Non-Profit Displacement”, and #1 was “Balanced Housing”. So Foundation Housing would fit in both categories. I … Continue reading
When Market Rents Break People, Some Try Fixes…
We are very far from the local control and local ownership of housing that was the norm 100 years ago. Not that everything was rosy then, but we can see the thorns of our current system. Some are trying some … Continue reading
Article on Sharable about Foundation Housing
I think the writer, Jessica Conrad, did a great job on this article about Foundation Housing for an interesting periodical Sharable, and also the same article was put up on On The Commons. Recommended.
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Our Foundation House now accepts Bitcoin for Rent in San Francisco
(covered by SFWeekly) Our Foundation House is now accepting bitcoin for rent. Since the Internet Archive is having such fun with bitcoin, we thought we would offer this. The Sushi place in our neighborhood accepts bitcoin, and Internet Archive employees … Continue reading
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Affordable Apartment Building for Non-Profit Workers– the first Foundation House
We now have it! A new non-profit now owns an apartment building in the central Richmond district of San Francisco. The mission of the Foundation House is to create affordable housing for people that work in non-profits– in … Continue reading
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Tagged debt-free housing, foundation house, foundation housing, Housing
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