Housing

With a population of just 3.4 million, Uruguay has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.

Housing cooperatives present a huge potential to the housing stock, not just in Hamilton but across Canada.

OUR Eco Village Cooperative is an organization with a unique vision and a rich history.

Residents organized a fundraiser on Feb. 22 to buy the building themselves under DC’s Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act.

Two New York City housing co-ops debated whether to privatize.

In all likelihood, board meetings will be run according to Roberts Rules of Order. My guess is that the vast majority of HOA are governed in this way. Based on my 4+ decades of working with cooperative groups, however, I know this can be done better. 

This documentary short highlights an inspiring cooperative housing model designed to prevent displacement and create home ownership opportunities for Missoula residents.

Today, on their one-third-acre lot in Oakland (California), there are 20 adults and 4 babies living in 6 buildings with 10 units. There's a 4-plex with 5 adults, 2 apartments with 2 or 4 adults upstairs and families downstairs, and 2 houses with families.

Today we’re visiting community-rooted enterprises where people are rethinking power and participation in their lives. Collective housing and cultural co-ops, land trusts and community banks are providing fundamental shifts in our workplaces, living spaces, and economic understanding of local communities.

I have some things to say about the role of common values in communities, about how to think about community buildings (as distinct from private dwellings), and about how the one relates to the other.