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A New Way to Make Housing Affordable for Nonprofit Workers

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Brewster Kahle, founder of Alexa and the Internet Archive, just launched a radical new housing experiment that could substantially decrease housing costs for nonprofit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and, hopefully, beyond.

"Yes, the dream is to transition 5% of all housing into a new housing class that would be dedicated to supporting the nonprofit sector. We currently have public housing, which makes up about 2 or 3% of American housing, and private housing. But I think private housing is a misnomer because ità ‚¬ „ s almost all mortgaged. Banks today arenà ‚¬ „ t the same as those from 100 years ago. What we have today are major corporations! To my mind, private housing is actually a form of corporate housing. What we need is a system for supporting nonprofits that can endure."
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