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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Students embrace co-operative housing as a solution to rental and cost-of-living crisis

A group of 29 Canberra students are extolling the benefits of living together in a rent-controlled, cooperative home as an alternative to student accommodation and the private rental market. There are thought to be a few hundred cooperatives across Australia, where each member is given an equal say on how they're governed, and rent can be indexed to income.

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