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.
What are your thoughts? Is the idea of a housing co-op compatible with a commercial building that rents spaces to traditional capitalist businesses? Do you think the businesses should also have stakes in the co-op or should that be reserved for residents?
What would you thinking of a co-op mixed use building only allowing other co-ops to rent the commercial spaces? Would that work?
Going a step further, do you think a full commercial office building can ever be cooperatively owned by different businesses?
On a slight tangent, I would love to see a federated model for coops where different cooperatives all subscribe to some baseline set of rules and policies they agree on. Then they can share a lot of the common costs and potentially offer services to one another using an internal rate. Having a shared insurance safety fund could also allow coops to weather difficult times and then pay back into it when they recover.
Ooh a coalition of co-ops! That’s be pretty cool!
@yogthos@lemmy.ml Things like it do exist locally in some places! Here’s one: http://www.fcnq.ca/en/accueil
oh interesting, Mondragon is another big example I can think of