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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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May 18, 2023

What Sweden Can Teach the U.S. About Overcoming the Housing Crisis

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Can studying cooperative housing in Sweden teach the U.S. how to overcome the moderate-income family housing crisis?

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March 23, 2023

Where Mutual Aid Comes to Its Own Assistance

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“Mutual aid is putting the saying ‘We are all we’ve got’ into practice, and trying to meet some of the survival needs of struggling people, including ourselves, while building community and working towards [long-term] solutions that don’t depend on the state.”

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February 13, 2023

Entrepatios: Cooperative housing thrives in Spain

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Entrepatios, a cohousing building in Madrid, is now home to 17 families and boasts the title of the first zero carbon footprint housing cooperative in the city.

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February 6, 2023

Working-Class Utopias

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As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city’s century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. In Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City, Robert Fogelson, one of the nation’s foremost urban historians, tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world’s largest housing cooperative, four decades later.

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December 8, 2022

Keeping Co-ops as a Viable Housing Option

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On today's show, we learn about the potential of housing cooperatives with Anne Reynolds, former Director of UW Center for Cooperatives.

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November 3, 2022

The Cost of Not Going Co-op

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Cooperative ownership offers a way for residents to not only have a say in their community’s decision-making, but also to prevent rent hikes and keep their housing costs affordable.

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October 24, 2022

Teaching Solidarity: Popular Education in Grassroots U.S. Social Movements

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How one program tried and failed to carve out autonomous "free space" within a large affordable housing non-profit.

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October 17, 2022

The Making of Co-op City, the Nation’s Biggest Housing Co-op

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Co-op City is the largest housing cooperative in the country.

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May 5, 2022

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

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

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August 9, 2021

Changing Stigma in Resident Owned Communities

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Kim Capen, the ROC Association Director for the New England Region, talks about his work on the ROC Association, including specific initiatives regarding stigma and branding.