Resident Owned Communities News

What are the types of housing co-ops and other shared housing models?

Meet Cathy, the Cooperative Development Institute’s new answerwoman! She can take on any co-op questions you might have, big or small. Today we ask: what are the types of housing co-ops and other shared housing models? See all of Cathy’s answers and ask your own on her home page. Shared living space and shared economic

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Engaging Students in the Housing Cooperative Movement

“So what’s your passion?” “What do you see yourself doing in five years?” “What are your career goals?” However you choose to phrase it, college students are continuously asking themselves and being asked, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” This is a complicated and multi-faceted question to consider—at any age, and

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Edgeway and Twin Coach: Two Resident-Owned Communities, One Spirit of Cooperation

Twin Coach Estates Homeowners Association (Lakeville) and Edgeway Homeowner’s Association (Middleborough) kicked off the month of August with a dual-community picnic. Toasting their achievements behind a “We Own It” banner, they congratulated one another on coming so far in such a short amount of time. Edgeway and Twin Coach are the newest resident-owned communities (ROCs)

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Gallery: Maine & New Hampshire Co-ops Celebrate Community

Below is a gallery from Friday and Saturday of last week as Maine based co-op members crashed the event in New Hampshire: Coops Celebrating Community, a resident-owned community gathering. This is due to the fact that Maine is too small for its own association, at least for the time being. CDI staff member Jessica Pooley

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For Immediate Release: Two Massachusetts Communities Become Resident-Owned Co-ops In A Single Day

  For Immediate Release 6/5/2014 Contact: Maureen Carroll, Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Development Specialist, 413-665-1271 (ext. 16), mcarroll@cdi.coop Two Massachusetts Communities Become Resident-Owned Co-ops In A Single Day Residents are using the democratic ownership and governance model to take control over issues of health and rent Middleborough and Lakeville, MA: Home-owners in two 55-and-older, back-to-back

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