Rick Steves has caused me to reevaluate my opinion of Rick Steves:
Back home, one of my pet social causes has long been affordable housing. Twenty years ago, I devised a scheme where I could put my retirement savings not into a bank to get interest, but into cheap apartments to house struggling neighbors. I would retain my capital, my equity would grow as the apartment complex appreciated, and I would suffer none of the headaches that I would have if I had rented out the units as a landlord. Rather than collecting rent, my “income” would be the joy of housing otherwise desperate people. I found this a creative, compassionate and more enlightened way to “invest” while retaining my long-term security.
Steves just gave a $4 million apartment complex to the YWCA.
(via Fresh Signals, a feed that, for me, has been exactly that for the past couple of weeks that I’ve been subscribed).
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