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Poor people find houses expensive to buy

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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 06:30
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It is an obvious problem but poor people find it hard to afford quality housing. There must be many different things that can help to reduce or approach this problem - any ideas?

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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 06:36
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Turn the house into an earning asset

The obvious way to turn the house into an earning asset is through advertising.

One idea is that the bricks that make up a brick built house can act as pixels - through the use of different coloured bricks messages can be built in - text, pictures etc.

The long term advertiser could pay an annual or lump sum fee to the home builder to build their logo or message into the side of the building - forever!

Imagine a street with a subtle pepsi sign built into the brick work at the front of every house.

This could provide money to offset the cost of house built without having to resort to lowering build quality.

I openned this as an idea also so that it can be tracked and voted on.

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