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When startup teams consider housing benefits as recruitment and retention strategy

My co-founders and I are all struggling with housing costs and considering whether our startup should provide housing assistance or shared housing but we disagree about whether that's a smart business strategy or a boundary violation. We want to help each other but we're not sure if mixing housing support with equity and employment creates more problems than it solves.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic pressure is pushing business partners to consider support structures that could either strengthen their venture or complicate it irrevocably.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Housing — why it's unaffordable and what might change?”

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