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So you are saying that the main barriers are housing and electricity. Ok that makes sense but I suspect that there might be plenty of places where you could first get people in that network to collectively save up to buy plots of land to then eventually build up housing. I just think that their is alot of wasted potential to actually directly support these people more.

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GreyShack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The issue with being poor is that you don’t get to save a lot - if any - whilst you are paying for rent and the basics. That is a large part of the reason that the housing co-op that I mentioned has housed so few after so long.

Yes, in the right conditions it will work, but there are a lot of situations that don’t leave people with access to those conditions.

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Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If they were able to save up enough to buy land, and build housing… they wouldn’t be poor.

I also don’t think you understand poverty. Almost half of Americas have less than 500 dollars in the bank, and 18 percent have nothing.

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