>gifting sums of money to someone to solve their problems can significantly complicate relationships
Maybe. If you have a relationship. I was thinking more along the lines of listening to someone's story and them finding a check from a mysterious benefactor in the mail sometime later.
>And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable
So don't do that. There are other ways to invest in communities. "Upgrading" housing is couched as the primary way to do so really only because it's a good way to make money (and influence what some people would view as desirable demographic changes).
Maybe. If you have a relationship. I was thinking more along the lines of listening to someone's story and them finding a check from a mysterious benefactor in the mail sometime later.
>And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable
So don't do that. There are other ways to invest in communities. "Upgrading" housing is couched as the primary way to do so really only because it's a good way to make money (and influence what some people would view as desirable demographic changes).
Better things are possible.