Tag: co-ops
How One Organization Is Preserving Housing Co-Ops
A group formed to promote student housing co-ops in the ’60s is acquiring and preserving cooperative housing for future generations.
The Power of Community to Segregate or Liberate
In order to successfully realize projects that serve the cause of social justice, community control must include strong leadership that actively cultivates the principles of inclusion, solidarity, and equity.
Mixing It Up
Compared to the worst examples of urban design that have physically isolated low-income families, mixed-income housing seems like an intuitively healthier, more equitable way to go about designing neighborhoods.
Interview with Gabriel Metcalf, author of Democratic by Design
Gabriel Metcalf, CEO of SPUR, discusses his new book, "Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts are Reinventing America."
How Much Outside Help Do Worker Co-ops Need to Get to...
Though they end up as owners and decision-makers, workers in low-income communities often don't start off doing all the work of developing and growing...
Will Co-ops Spark a New Civil Rights Movement?
While the words “co-op” and “civil rights” do not commonly appear in the same sentence, with more than 300 cooperative and social justice activists...
The Promise and Challenges of Co-ops in a Hot Real Estate...
The Clinton neighborhood, also known as Hell’s Kitchen, sits in the western middle of Manhattan. From the urban disinvestment of the 1960s through the...