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Home Ownership for Punx
2008-04-05 22:00 - 2008-04-06 00:30 UTC | Big Yellow House, 742 N Branciforte Ave, Santa Cruz
This Saturday, please join us for a most unlikely free skool class: A workshop on the possibilities of Home Ownership for punk kids, co-op living communitarians, renters, hippie families, etc. This is an attempt to spark a movement of community-owned homes and to ensure that all the best people don't flea the outrageous rents in this beautiful but expensive area.

Home Ownership 4 Punx
Big Yellow House, 742 N. Branciforte Ave
with Wes & Katie
pigeon@riseup.net, thespoon@thespoon.com

Straight up: If you pay rent, you can afford a house, even in this outrageously expensive area. Let's talk about buying a house: what to look for, loans, equity, down payments, financial bullshit. More importantly, let's talk about alternatives to the fucked-up system of personal homeownership: land trusts, collectives, and creating a network of community-owned homes. Let's get together and create a vision of the strong, rooted community we want to see.

Requirements: We have complicated feelings about ownership, trying to balance our abhorrence of participating in the economy with living in the world we have now. So bring those feelings.

Saturday April 5th 3pm
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/02/18490201.php
