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Q: What Are the Three Major Types of Community- or Resident-Controlled Housing and How Do They Work?
There's a lot of momentum toward resident-controlled housing. Do you know the three major forms it takes?
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Creating the Commons
The commons can be understood as a set of resources that have been de-commodified: that is, these are resources that are used to directly support life, rather than to extract a profit through sale on the market.
Will Limited-Equity Cooperatives Make a Comeback?
Federal programs and cultural attitudes that helped launch a majority of the large limited-equity co-ops across the nation are long gone, but at a smaller scale, this model of resident-controlled, long-term affordable housing may be experiencing new interest.
Shared Equity Homeownership
This breakthrough study on shared equity homeownership—limited equity co-ops, community land trusts, and inclusionary units—examines the benefits of these models within a sectoral framework to redefine the housing ladder.
The Promise and Challenges of Co-ops in a Hot Real Estate Market
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 1980s, it was the scene of […]
Beyond Gentrification
There is no reason why people who have worked so hard to build lives and improve their neighborhoods should not be able to stay there.