Re: Brother, have you been converted?

In article <g11eel0pdj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Rick B. <deepstblu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <69ipmmF31p5edU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Greg Goss says...
> 
> >I know someone else who lives in a [name forgotten] apartment.  Each
person 
> >owns a 1/130 share in the building with 130 apartments in it.  That
share 
> >gives them the right to live in one of the units without specifically 
> >owning that unit.
> 
> In the US that's a "cooperative." Common in NYC, less so elsewhere.

Same here. We have quite a few in major cities. There used to be federal 
money to help build them in return for including a certain number of 
subsidized units that would be occupied by low-income people, usually 
disabled.

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bill
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