[blakblakarak]

Homes? Nah they’re ‘investments’. I live in Brittany, France and new buyers, low earners etc are completely priced out of the market. My partner is a nurse and at her hospital they are closing wards because nurses, cleaners, healthcare assistants and even junior doctors can’t find, let alone afford accommodation.

[developer93]

Gonna go back to the days where the company owned your accommodation & you had a house as long as you had the job?

[sethammons]

I'm hearing more and more about it. Company stores and company towns. Nope, nothing to learn from historically here at all.

[theshrike79]

It wasn't all bad.

In here The Company (a paper factory) guaranteed home loans for employees, a ton of people got dirt-cheap loans and paid off their homes in record time. My aunt still lives in one of those homes, they've been debt free since before the millennium.

[the-dude]

There are plenty of good examples of company provided housing in The Netherlands, early 20th century.

The Netherlands can't be the only country where it did work out.

I was born and raised in a beautiful company built neighbourhood. Small but decent houses, a school, some shops and enough room for some 'green'.

[developer93]

Bournville in UK is another example. It was definitely a step up at the time, but I feel like conditions are somewhat better an century and a half later and if they would be going back to where losing your house with your job is an acceptable risk, it would now be a step down.