Community Land Trusts And Limited Equity Cooperatives: A Marriage Of Affordable Homeownership Models?
Since 2008, many have questioned the efficacy of conventional homeownership, particularly for low-income households. Advocates champion shared equity homeownership as an alternative, including community land trus ...Read More
Palo Alto, Mexico
Richard Audet, a colleague from Montreal, visited Palo Alto coop in late 2019 and shared this report with us.Read More
Australia Looks at Austria for Affordable Housing Financing Models
Australia Looks at Austria for Affordable Housing Financing ModelsRead More
Environmental Sustainability Policy
Co-ops that care about climate change and want to shrink their environmental footprint should consider approving their own Environmental Sustainability Policy. A model was developed by the Co‑operative Housing Federation of Cana ...Read More
Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust
Brighton and Hove Community Land Trust in the UK filmed their workshops on community-led housing recently so that people can watch them anytime. Find out how to set up a housing cooperative, get mortgage advice and learn about pla ...Read More
Capturing the Customer Voice
Resident satisfaction surveys continue to be an essential tool used to shape services, improve ways of working and enhance the customer experience or residents across the housing sector. In 2011, HouseMark launched what is now the ...Read More
Co-op Creator
A co-operative is a business and requires the same level of energy, skill, and commitment as any other business. Starting and building a business can be complicated, confusing and frustrating. The Co-op Creator is designed to assi ...Read More
From Conflict to Cooperation
These five booklets cover basic communication concepts, making meetings more effective, dealing with conflict, improving communication, and the vital role of the board. View here. ...Read More
Community Land Trusts in England: A Study of an Emerging Typology
The aim of this masters thesis by Dave Smith is to establish an emerging, consistent typology that could be termed an ‘English Community Land Trust’ – one distinct from that of other affordable housing providers; congruen ...Read More