In August 2012, Students from Korea University and Yeonsae University visited the Berkeley Student Cooperative as part of a two-week tour of American student cooperatives. Students at these schools in Seoul plan to form housing cooperatives to lower living costs, and visited the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) headquarters, the BSC, the Santa Barbara […]
Berkeley Student Cooperative
The Berkeley Student Cooperative is a 501c3 nonprofit housing cooperative that provides affordable housing in room and board houses and apartments to students at UC Berkeley and other Bay Area colleges and universities. Presently the BSC has over 1300 student members living in or eating at twenty student housing cooperatives around the UC Berkeley campus. […]
Building a Better World Literally
Forests are the green lungs of the planet, absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, and they provide vital habits for an incredible array of biodiversity. Yet over the last half-century, we have lost about half of the worlds original forest cover, mostly because of our unsustainable exploitation of forests many resources. Now, ICA Housing, the […]
ICA Housing
ICA Housing is a sectoral organisation of the International Co-operative Alliance. It was established to promote the development of co-operative housing in all countries, and in particular developing countries, as an economic and social contribution to the problem of providing shelter.
So Happy Together: Cooperative Housing for Retirees
Through vibrant green summers and freezing snowy winters, the members of the Kildahl Park Pointe Cooperative (KPP) in Northfield, Minnesota trust the solid brick building at 888 Cannon Valley Drive to keep them safe and secure. The building is their home. All the members have topped fifty-five and rely on each other, not just to […]
Kildahl Park Pointe Housing Cooperative
Kildahl Park Pointe (KPP) is a senior housing cooperative in Northfield, MN (U.S.A.) where active, independent adults will find an affordable alternative to traditional home ownership with tax advantages, secured equity growth, and freedom from the responsibility of home maintenance. KPP is a member of the Senior Cooperative Foundation – learn more at www.seniorcoops.org and […]
Housing Coop Commissions Work of Art
The Berlin housing cooperative GeWoSued commissioned the artist Sandra Lange with a wallpainting. Once Building Art was a marketing-must of commercial housing developers. Due to a high housing demand in the big german cities investors today neglect any additional effort. The GeWoSued cooperative tries to achieve with every building or modernisation something special. As art […]
Homes for all in Ireland
In the 1960s and 70s in Ireland, growing numbers of young couples sought access to affordable home-ownership. Inspired by the success of the credit union movement, which took off in Ireland in the 1950s, young people began to look towards the co-operative model to help fulfill their housing needs. Small, self-help co-operatives began to be […]
NABCO – National Association of Building Cooperatives Society Ltd
NABCO is the national federation for housing cooperatives in Ireland, representing, promoting and developing cooperative housing in Ireland, supporting cooperative housing societies and contributing to the building of better communities.
From squatting to a home
The Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince still lies in ruins after a devastating earthquake which destroyed it in January 2010. Haiti has the largest population of any of the Caribbean nations but equally its people are some of the poorest. It is the poorest nation in the Americas. More than $US2 billion in aid has been […]