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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Community Land Trusts

Organizations dedicated to providing affordable housing through democratically-controlled structures of land ownership involving both residents and members of the surrounding community.

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December 11, 2023

Moving Upstream

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Healthcare-based interventions addressing social needs such as food and housing generally fail to impact the upstream wealth and power inequities underlying those needs. However, a small number of US healthcare organizations have begun addressing these upstream inequities by partnering with community wealth building initiatives. These initiatives include community land trusts, resident-owned communities, and worker cooperatives, which provide local residents ownership and control over their housing and workplaces. While these partnerships represent a novel, upstream approach to the social determinants of health, no research has yet evaluated them.

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August 24, 2023

Limited Equity Co-ops and Community Land Trusts

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This country needs more affordable homeownership options. And more communities are looking to the long-established Limited Equity Cooperative (LEC) and Community Land Trust (CLT) models to provide a permanently affordable way to provide homes for low and moderate-income individuals and families. But how do these models work to provide housing ownership and stability? Who controls the decision-making, and how do you get them financed and developed?

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November 22, 2021

Community Owned Real Estate

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Ebony Gustave interviews East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Executive Director Noni Sessions for the Cooperative Journal podcast.

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July 23, 2020

Black Commons, Community Land Trusts, and Reparations

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Community Land Trusts (CLTs) offer a way to keep land out of the speculative market while providing a step towards reparations for African Americans.

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November 25, 2019

Do housing co-ops decommodify housing?

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The differences between market-rate housing cooperatives, limited-equity housing cooperatives, and zero-equity co-ops.