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Mixed use development is the technical term for a building with residences and store fronts and/or office spaces combined. For example, an apartment with the first floor being shops and restaurants. While co-ops consisting of these buildings are more rare, as far as I know there are some. …
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This story isn’t directly about cooperatives, took a chance it might be of use to this Community, anyway: …
In which we are joined by Gemma and Alex from Common Knowledge, a cooperative “designing digital tools that make radical change possible”…
“The most important aspect of the democratic ownership agenda is the battle against the class tyranny of property”…
The long tradition of African American cooperation is not well known, and in her book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nemhard sets out to remedy that gap in our knowledge. …
The DisCO Project is a friendly and carefully planned approach for organizations that want to create and share value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics…
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Non-ownership housing co-ops are simple enough to imagine: basically you’re renting the house, but instead of paying a for-profit land lord, you pay a nonprofit designed to benefit everyone who lives in the apartment complex. But how would ownership housing co-ops work? Does the initial price of buy…
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A worker-owned bicycle courier service. The software they use is open source, under an interesting licence that only allows use by co-operatives…
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A video by Co-operatives UK on housing co-ops for students as an alternative to renting off landlords, who often treat their tenants pretty poorly…