#coophousing — Public Fediverse posts

It was only three short blocks from an immense communist Coop housing project in the #Bronx, hence the advertisement I suppose. Or maybe the owner was a member of this Arbeter Ring branch.

Sharing again this fascinating Jewish Currents article from a few years back about the rise and fall of utopian coop housing in the Bronx:
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-coops

#Housing #coophousing

Hey smart people! My wife and a number of our friends and I are working on a plan to "co-house/start a cult/live closely together" kind of thing. We're at the stage where we need to set up a system for sharing ideas and thinking through possibilities, discussion, sharing examples of housing arrangement models, etc. There are so many different aspects to figure out and just chatting on FB, e.g., isn't cutting it. Email, too, seems too cumbersome. So maybe a kind of online project development/management platform (I'm not a business kind of guy at all, so I don't know all the lingo). Something free, accessible to everyone and "user-friendly" in the extreme would be great.

I have my own domain and can install software there if there is something that's worth trying.

Any ideas? Have you done anything similar? What system(s) did you use? All thoughts welcome! Thanks! #projectManagement #cohousing #coopHousing #cohabitation #communityLedHousing

Season 4 episode 2: Solarpunk Considers Cohousing, with Hermina Joldersma

In this episode, Ariel talks to Hermina Joldersma, professor emerita at University of Calgary, about alternative housing arrangements, focusing on cohousing. They discuss not only Hermina’s experiences living in different types of housing, but the mindset necessary to cohousing and communal life, and the way that community often has to be intentionally created. Tune in now!

https://youtu.be/-pF1Gj1Wxg4?si=tLPI5QFNk3H2uS2n

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #housing #AffordableHousing #CooperativeHousing #CoopHousing #CommunalLiving #Roommates #Apartments #Condominiums #shelter

Season 4 episode 1: Solarpunking Housing, with Ariel & Christina

In this kick-off of Season 4, Ariel and Christina tackle the topic of housing. How could solarpunk expand its dreams of housing beyond the aesthetic and into the realm of the practical? It is one of the central imaginings of solarpunk, after all. And it’s something we’re not doing very well in the present.

Can solarpunk envision not just greenery and solar-panel-draped dwellings, but housing that would meet people’s needs, not just for shelter, but comfort, mental health, emotional and physical support, ease of access, friendship and community, and culture, while also being affordable to everyone, energy efficient, and not contributing to urban sprawl? It seems like a tall order, but we want to make it a present reality. Tune in as we discuss!

https://youtu.be/Mc1UTOQW0go?si=WFLShyAl5e5zlsQf

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #housing #AffordableHousing #CooperativeHousing #CoopHousing #CommunalLiving #Roommates #Apartments #Condominiums #shelter

@AlisonCreekside @douglaspynn
Everybody has heard this stuff :

If the federal government had kept building housing co-ops and #SocialHousing in the 1990s, we would have exactly the number of houses that we are lacking in the country today, available at rents like mine 🏠
#rant #coopHousing #vanpoli #canpoli #bcpoli

@AlisonCreekside @douglaspynn
Or actually, I live in a
housing #Coop outside the gambling scheme, so I pay $700 a month rent in Gastown

While my neighbors in the “market” rate building next-door pay $2000 a month for a similar unit. Because homes are just markers on gambling tables 🎰

#rant #coopHousing #vanpoli #canpoli #bcpoli