And have the entire thing run by fedrl bureaucrats.
This is definitely the California leftist regime plan.
There are thousands of mixed-use commercial development where employees/owners live above there retail shop.
Agenda 21?
Feudalism was already done in the Middle Ages.
Why not put in a company store for groceries while you’re at it and pay the serfs in company script?
My brother worked in a laundry mat when he was going to college in the early 70s. He lived in a nice roomy apartment above, it was an old building and owners had lived upstairs for years before moving into a home.
It used to be a thing, house upstairs in business. No idea why it stopped being a thing. Made great sense, saved money for people that owned the business and as you say no reason why it couldn’t be rental space.
I don’t know if zoning allows it now but is a great idea that was done in the past.
I don’t care for this idea. Hey humblegunner make yourself useful for once.
That’s how it used to be. A shop owner lived above (or behind) his shop
Granted, that was the owner, not just an employee. But it’s not a bad model.
What about the retail worker that has a spouse with a high income?
In practice, it won’t work because the politicians will not let you evict the former employees. I could see co-locating apartment buildings near shopping malls.
If healthcare tethered to the place of employment works so well, why not living spaces. /s
It’s a great idea... if you own it and want that and are free to change the conditions as need be.
Otherwise,
How about people go about cutting out the tentacles of “great ideas” that haved already choked the life out of everything they are wrapped around.
Nobody wants simple.
Good idea. Even if you’re getting flamed for it.
You’re not saying that employees would be required to live there.
You’re just saying that housing could be offered as an option.
Housing could be part of the employee package (much like health insurance is).
The same way some storage companies offer apartments to their managers, for example.
Adjusted for inflation the 1969 minimum wage of $1.60 would be $11.60 in today's dollars. So $15/hr is not "outrageous".
Gee, maybe we can throw in a “company store” and take our pay in scrip.
It’s been tried on a small scale, but never works. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, there was a shopping center in my town with stores on the ground floor and apartments above. Within just a few years, virtually no one working in the center lived there. Same as adding new employers in your suburban town. Theoretically, local folks would work right in their home town. But it never works. Soon, people are commuting in from other towns while locals commute out. Traffic increases.
Ring Ring
Hey Brian, can you come down quick, we’re really busy down here and short handed due to illness and vacations?
No?
Well, you can find yourself another job and place to live.
It’s an idea. Something that isnt even new. Whole towns, and colonies were owned by companies in the previous 4 centuries to address a similar issue....to mixed results.
Certainly people screaming against it could put forward something more acceptable to their sensibilities?
Not that I would want that type of relationship with an employer, but it seems like something to be better fleshed-out, rather than ignored wholesale.
You mean to create a race of morlocks? IOW. what kind of tennant would work at and live above a Walmart? Ex navy, I know what happens to people after a while who live and work in the same small space.