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How many people live in their own property? (i.imgur.com)

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[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the old Soviet blocks have individual ownership of each apartment in it, and the buildings are maintained by groups of people who own the apartments in that building (I forgot the word, not a native English speaker, sorry. But basically like a union out of each owner in the building, there's monthly meetings to decide stuff etc).

The word you're looking for is probably "cooperative"

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Nope a cooperative would own the entire apartment building and the residents own shares in the cooperative. What Lost is describing is a homeowner association. There the individual apartments are directly owned by the residents.

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HOA would be the American term.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it would be a condo (condominium) board or association, since they're 'apartments' not detached single family homes.

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The concepts don't translate neatly. Generally I don't think most Europeans have different words for condominiums and apartments. And in my experience detached homes rarely belong to HOAs.