"A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure."
A multi-unit building where residents own shares in the building corporation.
Cooperative Housing: This topic covers the concept of cooperative housing, where a group of individuals jointly own and manage a residential property. It includes legal structures, governance, and financial management of cooperative housing.
Cooperative Environment: This topic covers the concept of environmental cooperatives, where groups work together to manage and protect natural resources. It includes the principles of cooperative environmental management, such as consensus building, participatory decision making, and community engagement.
Cooperative Economics: This topic covers economic models that prioritize cooperative ownership and management. It includes cooperative principles, cooperative business models, and the benefits of cooperative economics.
Sustainable Development: This topic covers the concept of sustainable development, where environmental sustainability, economic growth, and social equity are balanced. It includes principles and strategies for sustainable development, such as resource conservation, renewable energy, and social inclusion.
Green Building: This topic covers the principles and practices of designing and constructing buildings that minimize environmental impact. It includes green building materials, energy-efficient design, and sustainable site planning.
Community Resilience: This topic covers the ability of communities to withstand and recover from adverse events, such as natural disasters, economic downturns, and social challenges. It includes strategies for building community resilience, such as social networks, emergency planning, and cooperative governance.
Energy Conservation: This topic covers efforts to reduce energy consumption and promote energy efficiency. It includes energy-saving technologies, energy conservation policies, and the role of communities in promoting energy conservation.
Urban Agriculture: This topic covers the practice of growing food in urban areas. It includes urban agriculture models, community gardens, and the benefits of urban agriculture for environmental sustainability, food security, and community wellbeing.
Transportation: This topic covers sustainable transportation systems, such as public transit, biking, and walking. It includes strategies for reducing commuting emissions, promoting active transportation, and supporting public transportation systems.
Waste Management: This topic covers best practices and strategies for managing waste in an environmentally sustainable manner. It includes recycling programs, waste reduction strategies, and sustainable waste management policies.
Housing Cooperatives: A housing cooperative is an organization managed by the residents who collectively own and manage the housing units. Members typically own a share in the cooperative and have the right to occupy an apartment in the cooperative-owned building.
Agricultural Cooperatives: Agricultural cooperatives exist to assist farmers and agricultural producers in purchasing supplies, marketing their goods, and obtaining loans or other financial assistance.
Healthcare Cooperatives: Healthcare cooperatives are organizations where members pool resources to obtain healthcare services, such as health insurance, wellness programs, and other health-related services.
Credit Cooperatives: Credit unions or credit cooperatives are financial institutions offering members banking services, including loans, savings accounts, and credit cards.
Worker Cooperatives: Worker cooperatives are businesses that are owned and managed by their workers, where employees work together and share profits.
Energy Cooperatives: Energy cooperatives enable members to buy, sell, and produce renewable energy or access clean energy from a shared source.
Consumer Cooperatives: Consumer cooperatives are organizations owned and run by consumers, where members pool their purchasing power to buy goods and services at a reduced price.
Transport Cooperatives: Transport cooperatives are organizations owned and run by the members who use the service. Members collect and use motor vehicles together while sharing costs.
Retail Cooperatives: Retail cooperatives are stores that are owned and run by their members who purchase goods and services directly from the manufacturers. Members receive benefits and save money through joining procurement activities.
Welfare Capitalism Cooperatives: Welfare capitalism cooperatives provide a form of benefits to their members that are similar to those provided by companies under the welfare capitalism tradition. This benefits model can include educational scholarships, medical care, housing, and other forms of support.
Housing Land Trusts: Housing land trusts provide secure homes that are affordable for people who could not otherwise own them. Land trusts operate by owning the land that housing properties are built on while leasing that land to homeless people.
Community Land Trusts: Community land trusts are nonprofit organizations that provide and maintain affordable homes to support and develop stable communities. They may own land, buildings, or both.
Shared Equity Housing: Shared equity housing models support housing affordability by offering residents reduced purchase prices or rents, or additional ownership rights, in exchange for other legal protections, such as restricted reselling and limited owner choice.
Limited Equity Cooperatives: Limited equity cooperatives are owned and managed by the resident-owners who agree to sell their co-op shares to only those who meet low-to-moderate-income limits or other qualification criteria.
Cohousing Communities: Cohousing communities help residents live in close-knit neighborhoods where the members share resources and support each other. Cohousing also encourages energy conservation and environmental protection.
Eco-Villages: Eco-villages are small, intentional communities that are designed to be sustainable and environmentally-friendly. Eco-villages often employ green infrastructure, which integrates various forms of renewable energy, water recycling, and natural habitats, and incorporates green building practices to minimize the environmental footprint of the residents.
"Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases, they can be owned by a non-profit organization."
"They are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single-family home ownership, condominiums, and renting."
"Membership is granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative."
"A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members' resources so that their buying power is leveraged; thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership."
"The members, through their elected representatives, screen and select who may live in the cooperative, unlike any other form of home ownership."
"Housing cooperatives fall into two general tenure categories: non-ownership (referred to as non-equity or continuing) and ownership (referred to as equity or strata)."
"Occupancy rights are sometimes granted subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease."
"Occupancy rights are sometimes granted by way of the purchase agreements and legal instruments registered on the title."
"The corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws as well as the occupancy agreement specify the cooperative's rules."
"The word cooperative is also used to describe a non-share capital co-op model in which fee-paying members obtain the right to occupy a bedroom and share the communal resources of a house owned by a cooperative organization."
"A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure."
"They are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single-family home ownership, condominiums, and renting."
"Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases, they can be owned by a non-profit organization."
"A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members' resources so that their buying power is leveraged; thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership."
"Membership is granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative."
"The members, through their elected representatives, screen and select who may live in the cooperative, unlike any other form of home ownership."
"Housing cooperatives fall into two general tenure categories: non-ownership (referred to as non-equity or continuing) and ownership (referred to as equity or strata)."
"Occupancy rights are sometimes granted subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease."
"Occupancy rights are sometimes granted by way of the purchase agreements and legal instruments registered on the title."