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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -4 points 6 months ago

In theory, some of those communes are cool. Way less wasteful than suburban living arrangements.

But I do worry about those communes, honestly. The demographics they attract are easy to abuse: aging conspiracy theorists with low education. If the commune owns the land, or even worse if an individual owns the land, then those people could be forced to leave and become homeless. Even if they did own property in the commune, it might be able to act as an HOA or local township and start charging them until they can claim the property that way.