Published June 3, 2025 Monmouth, ME — The residents of West Village mobile home park, now called the Blue Rock Cooperative, purchased their 42-home community for $1.9 million, preserving the affordability of their homes and securing their futures. When residents received notice from the owner of their manufactured home community that the property, the land
By: Heather Holland | May 13, 2025 Veazie, ME – A new vegetable garden, a school bus shelter and safer streets for children, and a cleaner stream running through the park are just a few of the improvements made by the hardworking resident-owners of Grey Stone Mobile Home Park since they purchased the community more
Published March 11, 2025 Massachusetts — Eastern Garage Door has been installing and servicing garage doors for the greater Lawrence and Merrimack Valley area for more than a century. Today, the company of eight employees is marking a new milestone: becoming an employee-owned cooperative and entrusting the future of the company to the people who
February 18, 2025 | For press inquiries, contact: hholland@cdi.coop Bangor, Maine – Residents of Cedar Falls Mobile Home Park formed a cooperative and today signed an $8 million deal to purchase their community, preserving nearly 130 affordable homes and solidifying plans to install dozens of new homes on the 79-acre park. Cedar Falls on Finson
Northampton, MA – December 19, 2024 – The Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) Main program today awarded the Cooperative Development Institute $17,890,795 to implement infrastructure projects at resident-owned communities representing thousands of households across the Northeast, helping to preserve the affordability and sustainability of homes in our region. In addition, PRICE funding
After inheriting failing leach fields, the Sunset Lake Cooperative is securing critical funding to overhaul its wastewater system and safeguard residents’ health By: April Myers | Communications Associate of ROC USA HINESBURG, Vt. – In 2019, shortly after the residents of Sunset Lake Cooperative purchased their community, they noticed an odor coming from their land
Brunswick, Maine—October 10, 2024—The residents of Linnhaven Mobile Home Park organized together to purchase their 278-home community for $26.3 million, marking the first deal of its kind since a new Maine law went into effect last year requiring park owners to notify residents when their properties are put up for sale. The residents closed on
By Heather Holland | Published Sept. 10, 2024 Brookfield, MA — The residents of Brookfield Meadows, a 55+ community with 61 homes, have organized together to purchase their manufactured home park for $3.9 million, making them the newest resident-owned cooperative community in Massachusetts. The 36-acre park, surrounded by dense trees and nature trails, located at
By Jay Poggi | Published August, 21, 2024 August 2024 marks CDI’s 30th Anniversary. We are honored to have supported hundreds of cooperatives in our 30 years as a nonprofit, whether it was helping to develop new cooperatives or strengthen existing ones. All of the cooperatives have one thing in common: They address the pressing
July 25, 2024 | By: Heather Holland Bethel, Maine — Jesper Kruse, an experienced carpenter and the founder of Maine Passive House, had many reasons why he decided to transition his 15-year-old company to an employee-owned cooperative. For one, he wanted to retain his experienced staff, and two, Kruse, who is 55 years old, wanted
