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For Immediate Release: Colchester Parks Become Newest ROCS!

February 11, 2022 1 Comment

For Immediate Release: Colchester Parks Become Newest ROCS! February 10, 2022 Colchester, Vermont Contact: Annik Paul, Vermont State Manager Cooperative Development Institute – New England Resident Owned Communities (802) 851-0110 Kathleen R. Berk, Executive Director Vermont State Housing Authority (802) 828-3019 Gus Seelig, VHCB Executive Director Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (802) 828-3251 Anne Loecher,

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Media Advisory: CDI releases Massachusetts Affordable Housing Report

June 29, 2021 No Comments

For Immediate Release June 29, 2021 Contact: Margaret Miley – Director, Cooperative Business Services mmiley@cdi.coop 978-973-1200 To celebrate National Home Ownership Month, the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) released its report– Cooperative Housing Solutions for Massachusetts’ Affordable Housing Crisis. Quality, stable affordable housing in the Commonwealth is increasingly difficult to secure. Cooperative ownership could

The Future of Manufactured Housing is Here!

August 12, 2020 No Comments

For Immediate Release: August 11, 2020 Pine Tree Village Cooperative Carver, Massachusetts Contact: Colleen Preston – Cooperative Development Institute (508) 951-0631 Alison Donovan – VEIC (802) 540-7605 The Future of Manufactured Housing is Here! Today, at Pine Tree Village Cooperative, a resident-owned manufactured housing community in Carver, Massachusetts, residents welcomed their first Zero Energy Modular

ROCUSA Offers a Grant Opportunity for ROC residents!

April 22, 2020 No Comments

Many residents have been negatively impacted by COVID-19. ROCUSA is raising money to provide grants for ROC households diagnosed with COVID-19. For each dollar raised, ROC USA and ROC Association will provide a combined match of one dollar, up to $10,000. As cooperatives, ROCs are manufactured home communities owned and operated by their residents. These

Halifax Estates, A Two Year Retrospective on Resident Ownership Success

February 19, 2020 No Comments

Recently, I read the Financial Times article, “Why Big Investors are Buying Up American Trailer Parks,” and it made me proud that CDI is part of the ROC USA network! I want to share my thoughts about Halifax Estates, a resident owned community that I worked closely with. Resident ownership really does make all the

The MetroWest Daily News Celebrates Our Jo-Len Village Conversion

January 13, 2020 No Comments

We’re still celebrating our Jo-Len Village conversion, in collaboration with ROCUSA, into the New Year! Daily news coverage has been at its peak. The MetroWest Daily News picked up this story and celebrated with us. Check out their article: residents-buy-out-complex-from-outside-company-for-14m

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Mountainside Community Celebrates Resident Ownership!

December 13, 2019 No Comments

For Immediate Release December 13, 2019 Mountainside Community Celebrates Resident Ownership! Homeowners purchase 52 unit Mountainside Park; preserving affordable housing in Camden – joins nine established Maine Resident Owned Communities. Contacts: Margaret Jone, Vice President, Mountainside Community Board of Directors, (207) 706-6391 Jeanee Wright, Cooperative Housing Development Specialist, CDI (207) 844-1664 Liza Fleming-Ives, Deputy Director,

A Full House with Resident Leadership

October 8, 2019 No Comments

On September 14, more than one hundred resident owned community leaders and co-op members gathered from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the 6th Annual ROC-A-Thon in Kingston, MA at the beautiful community of Town and Country Estates. Those in attendance represented fifteen ROC communities and three currently pursuing conversion and resident ownership. Echoing previous years,

“Why I love living in a resident owned cooperative”

November 6, 2015 No Comments

Why I Love Living in a Resident Owned Cooperative by Joanna Jackson, Medomak Mobile Home Cooperative, Waldoboro, Maine — published by Lincoln County News, October, 2015 Being a member of a resident owned co-op has been life changing for me. There all kinds of co-ops you have heard about: food co-ops, garden co-ops, bank co-ops, but there is

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

August 28, 2014 No Comments

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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