Aprende más sobre Cooperativas |
Learn More about Housing Cooperatives
Sobre las cooperativas de vivienda |
About Housing Cooperatives
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Simple 3-minute YouTube video by the Central Ontario Co-operative Housing Federation. (Just one line in this video is not exactly applicable to our situation. When the man says, “We don’t need to spend money to come in, we don’t make money when we leave,” he’s talking about a no-equity co-op. We are building a limited equity co-op.)
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Association of Housing Cooperatives answers basic questions about housing cooperatives. Includes a link to a chart that compares co-ops to renting and traditional single family home ownership.
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Good basic info on what a housing co-op is. While this article talks about co-ops in Canada, the basic info on co-ops is relevant in the US too.
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Brief description of a limited-equity co-op written by University of Chicago Law School's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic
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A toolkit Written by PolicyLink, a national research and action group “lifting up what works.”
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Includes a history of limited-equity co-ops nationally
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Este artículo habla de las cooperativas en Canadá, pero la información básica sobre las cooperativas es relevante en los EE. UU. también.
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United Nations discussion of New York cooperatives’ role in economic and social development
Principios de las cooperativas |
Cooperative Principles
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An article that makes the argument that "we have to stop profiting from property. We have to treat homes as homes, not as investment vehicles that we hope to later sell to the highest bidders."
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In this article, UN envoy Leilani Farha says the boom in luxury real estate worldwide is fueling the housing crisis and ripping communities apart
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All cooperatives worldwide are based on a set of common values, whether they’re housing co-ops, worker co-ops, or food co-ops: self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity.
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The original cooperative principles are known as “the Rochdale Principles.”
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A lot more about the Seven Cooperative Principles and how they can be lived out.
Las cooperativas en el contexto de Chicago |
Co-ops in Chicago
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South Side Weekly article from July 2018 about PIHCO
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2004 report that finds co-ops are underutilized as an affordable housing strategy and could play an important role in fighting gentrification.
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Chicago Tribune article about the University of Wisconsin/UIC/Chicago Mutual Housing Network study above
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Chicago Reader story about the creation of the Logan Square Housing Cooperative
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Website that maps all Chicago housing cooperatives
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This guide by the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation is designed to assist community leaders in determining whether co-op housing is right for their community, and helps with choosing, planning and organizing co-op housing developments.
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This guide by the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation is designed for co-op boards of directors, resident members and co-op partners. It defines what a co-op is, highlights the history of the cooperative movement, explains how co-ops are managed and governed, explores what co-op members can do to recognize and weed out problems early on, and provides guidelines that allow the best elements of cooperative living to take root and grow.
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This organization in New York City has helped convert 33,000 units of rental housing to limited-equity or no-equity co-ops.
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https://www.amalgamated-bronx.coop/handbook-documents/
Founded in 1927 in the Bronx, Amalgamated is the oldest limited-equity housing co-op in the U.S.