Unionize the building, you say? Tell me more...
Unionize the building, you say? Tell me more...
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In my country such unions are actually mandatory and apartment buildings are collectively owned by everyone living in that building. Active union's are amazing, my building just got a garden and a small bike shed is in the planning. The last place I lived got a whole renovation organize by the union.
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That sounds more like a Homeowner's Association to me
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I have the same thing in my country and it's called a co-op.
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In the us, HOAs are 99.9% pure karen evil concentrate
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No idea what that is. The direct translation to what it is is apartment union. Every resident is a member and we all vote what goes down on the general use areas of the apartment building. People who own their apartment have more leverage with their vote but people who rent have a say as well, most people in my country own an apartment though.
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What country is this?
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Estonia
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Is it everyone living there or everyone who owns the property there? Many countries have the 2nd type.
If it's the first, who pays for all the stuff?
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The general purpose areas of the apartment building are owned by everyone who owns an apartment in the building. Renters do have a say in the decision making though.
As for who pays: every apartment union I have been a part of we have a small apartment union charge on our utilities, usually like 10 euros at most. The amount has always been voted on. So everyone living there collectively pays.
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What does unionizing your building accomplish?
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Sounds like it might be more like a coop. Alternatively, unionizing for the purpose of sharing information on the landlords' practices, tenants rights, pooling money for legal help, etc.
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I would think that if all the tenants banded together, they could also negotiate on rent rises. I doubt they could prevent them, but they could certainly threaten to refuse to pay collectively if it was too high. Yes, that risks evicting the whole building, but that seems like a bad risk for the management company to take.
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Less ozone
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Would this be legal in the U.S.?
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Yes it is! Tenant unions are actually steadily gaining steam in the US. When I'm done with my union campaign, I'm going to start organizing my apartment
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Excellent! I'm a homeowner, but I wish all of the renters in this country a way to get relief and this sounds like a good start!
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Interesting. You're giving me ideas! Ideas that I don't know if I have the energy and resources to act on, but something to think about and maybe talk to other neighbors about. We have no rent increase protections or really many tenent rights at all here in Oklahoma and the prices are getting ridiculous..and these are supposed to be low income apartments. Bah.
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Y'all don't have a national renters' association that negotiates the rents?
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Bro we still have slavery, they just moved it to prisons. Of course we don't have anyone to negotiate rents on our behalf.
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What countries do?
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The Scandinavian ones do at least.
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A lof of European countries do. If you rent long term, your lease is automatically renewed every 12 months and the rent increase is indexed in some consumer/ construction rate set up by the government. So no drastic increase. On the other end, if for some reason the tenant leaves and a new one arrives, the owner can set the new rent price as high as they wish in the limit of what’s authorised by the law as some metro areas have max rent prices and if you try to charge more then you’re fined.
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Lol no, you just wake up one day and find out your rent is going up $500/month because a lot of people are interested
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"Come and hang"
.... the landlords? Down
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I don't get it.. Like can you say we can't pay your rent? They own the property and can do whatever they want with it? Or is it more like making everyone act in unison so that landlords are forced to take fair rent, or no one rents their prop? I'm down for that
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Or is it more like making everyone act in unison so that landlords are forced to take fair rent
This one I think
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Tenants can unionize?
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Why not.
They can organize, chat and plan amongst themselves. They can use legal and illegal methods to threaten and hurt landlords who won't do as they want.
Is any kind of tenants union formally permitted by the government? I doubt it.
Will cops try to hurt and kill unruly tenants? Absolutely.
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Who's "the government'? My government absolutely allow this
Edit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Mieterbund
The Deutscher Mieterbund e. V. (DMB) is a federal association of tenants' associations that sees itself as the political representative of the interests of all tenants of residential property in Germany, independent of the state and political parties. It is the umbrella organization of 15 state associations. These in turn, as registered associations under the name "Deutscher Mieterbund," form the umbrella organizations of local tenants' associations at the state level.
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The left can't meme. What a shitty boomer meme 🤣
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Fucking commies
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You ain't done nothing if you ain't been called a red,
If you've marched or agitated then you're bound to hear it said
So you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead,
Cause you ain't been doing nothing if you ain't been called a red!
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Love it !
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