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Finns in Brooklyn Build Co operative Housing for Low Rent
Fin family carpenters and tradespeople form co operative societies in Brooklyn to create multi family apartment houses, a community club, a co operative restaurant, and future bakeries and dairies. They pool savings to buy land and erect buildings paying far less than market rents, with loan-based ownership and strict co op rules.
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Co-Operative Bakeries
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Big Success
New York
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Moving Picture House
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Land of Opportunity
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Co-Operative Society’s
Frederic J. Haskin
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