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Financing

June 15, 2026

In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call for a Tenant Right to Purchase Act

Housing advocates in Eugene, Oregon, are seeking to create a legislative framework that would allow tenants to collectively acquire multifamily buildings when a building comes up for sale.

May 18, 2026

Replacing Banks with Savings Clubs

This month’s guest is Rob Callender, co-founder of Kin.coop, a platform designed to help people start and manage cooperative savings clubs. What would it look like to organise money collectively? 

March 11, 2025

DC Tenants Need $11,000 to Convert their Apartment to a Housing Co-op

Residents organized a fundraiser on Feb. 22 to buy the building themselves under DC’s Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act.

Hammer preparing to pound in a screw.
January 23, 2024

Doubts About "DAO Tooling"

DAO tooling is a poor fit for co-ops (and everyone else too).

October 26, 2023

The Ghana Susu: Reimagining Financial Development

In Ghana, a centuries-old financial system called Susu provides an example of effective bottom-up development that contributes meaningfully to reducing poverty and economic inequality.

September 7, 2023

The Banker Ladies Council

Meet the Black women organizers defying anti-Blackness to build a Canadian federation of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations.

August 22, 2022

How the Ghana Susu System Helps the African Diaspora

Canadian members of the African diaspora make use of traditional forms of group savings, known as susu, to overcome financial and cultural exclusion in the mainstream system. 

May 5, 2022

Housing co-ops could solve Canada’s housing affordability crisis

To make housing truly affordable, governments need to support non-profit housing cooperatives.

September 20, 2021

Selling to a Worker Coop Over Time

Different ways to convert a business to a worker co-op over time.

June 17, 2021

Raising Cooperative Capital for Worker Co-ops

How can cooperatives raise capital that aligns with their values and do it legally?