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What is cooperative housing?

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According to the latest statistics, rents for houses and apartments are constantly rising in all Australian cities. Currently at around $50 per quarter. Wages and salaries often can't keep up, but you have to live somewhere. One alternative that is not very well known is co-operative housing. About 8 thousand people live in such cooperative institutions in Australia. Magdalena Tausch is one of them.


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By Wolfgang Mueller

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According to the latest statistics, rents for houses and apartments are constantly rising in all Australian cities. Currently at around $50 per quarter. Wages and salaries often can't keep up, but you have to live somewhere. One alternative that is not very well known is co-operative housing. About 8 thousand people live in such cooperative institutions in Australia. Magdalena Tausch is one of them.


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Magdalena Tausch leitet eine genossenschaftliche Wohneinrichtung für Künster in Sydney

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