On a plot of land in western Connecticut resides a small group of tenants who are doing housing a little differently. “ We’re all involved and invested in the same thing, which is safe housing for ourselves and our family,” says Wandy Luna, 48, president of one of the six Brookside Housing Cooperatives, the oldest cooperative housing project in Connecticut.
An ageing population and spiralling health and social care costs pose a formidable challenge for countries like the UK – which, say campaigners, is being exacerbated by privatised system which leads to capital extraction by outsourced providers.
People joined Common Share Food Co-op thinking they were signing on to get a grocery store. From start to finish, the idea was indeed to build a supermarket. But as the project trundled along, it became clear that the co-op had another role to fill. Felicia Sevene brought a new way of looking at the challenges facing any group intending to bring a food co-op to Amherst. From her own life experience, Felicia understood better than many others that Amherst is not a single, homogenous community.
2025 is wrapping up and as many of you know, not only is it the UN’s “International Year of the Co-op” but it’s also Wraith’s 20th anniversary! 20 years. Wow. Twenty… Years.
You know, any time an anniversary of any kind happens, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the nostalgia of it all. The successes, the failures, the friends you’ve made, and those you’ve lost along the way. There is so much I want to tell you all here. So much I want to lay out on the page. It’s actually kind of hard to write.
20. Years.
