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   Pete Ashton (pete@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 19:04:59 JST Pete Ashton

   Landlord has a derelict building, community enterprise takes it on peppercorn rent, fixes it up and runs a pay-what-you-can restaurant employing feeding the community and employing 22 people. With the building now fixed up, landlord evicts community enterprise and sells building.

   https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/22/radical-pay-what-you-can-restaurant-faces-eviction-from-mill-it-refurbished

   This could be easily avoided if derelict and unused buildings were simply confiscated from landlords and given to the community. They should have no rights of ownership here.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 20:00:11 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @jbenjamint @pete community right to buy, yes. Not necessarily as it exists in Scotland right now, though. Too many communities, who should have automatic rights to land or facilities, have to bankrupt themselves and wear themselves out, so they can hand over huge sums of cash to absentee or incompetent owners. It's a step in the right direction, but it isn't a desired destination.

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     🐕 (jbenjamint@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 20:00:12 JST 🐕

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     @pete I don't know how well known the Scottish system is south of the border but England needs community right-to-buy as it exists in Scotland - it would have given the community group first attempt at any sale and prevented the transfer to a new owner.