I'm part of Sydney Cohousing, a local community volunteer group that wants to promote more collaborative and less profit-driven approaches to housing. We're running an Intro to Cohousing event in Camperdown this Sunday!
If you're interested in alternatives to the developer-led profit-driven housing system we have in Australia right now, come along. There'll be some great chats as well as the formal seminar.
#SydneyCohousing #Cohousing #HousingCrisis #HousingCoop #SustainableHousing
Hey #coop #cooperatives #housingcoop people - the Stirchley Development Co-op in Birmingham UK is being fucked by their contracted builder (to summarise bluntly) for £1.2m weeks before completion. More info here: https://www.stirchley.coop/stirchley-businesses-face-closure-jobs-at-risk-and-residents-already-homeless/
If any of you in the co-op community can help practically or otherwise please contact [email protected]
(I’m technically a member but am on medical leave so can't be involved - please don't contact me about it!)
Other tags: #WorkerCoops #socialhousing #SocialCoop #cooperative
"Financing freedom: how we funded our co-op", from Ray of Wirksworth Co-op.
https://raythespirit.com/blog/2025/12/8/financing-freedom-how-we-funded-our-co-op
When I shared our recent journey to settling into our new home one of the things that most interested people was how the finances work. It is also the aspect of co-operative living that seems to present the biggest challenge to banks, government bodies and boomers alike. In simple terms
I built a (shitty placeholder) website! 🎉
(and learnt about ssh along the way)
https://www.dannygarside.co.uk/blog/Codeberg-WebArch-website/
Gorgeous corners and people in @sostrecivic’s Cireres (see post above)
#BancaEtica #Spain #Catalunya #cooperativeHousing #Winterrail #Winterrail2526 #GenEtica #cooperatives #coops #coop #cooperative #housingCoop #housing
Currently enjoying the sunset in #Barcelona from the rooftop of Cireres, a building built and owned by @sostrecivic, also thanks to a loan by Fiare Banca Etica.
(Housing) cooperatives will save the world! 💕
#BancaEtica #Spain #Catalunya #cooperativeHousing #Winterrail #Winterrail2526 #GenEtica #cooperatives #coops #coop #cooperative #housingCoop #housing
I made a gap of the Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) in #QGIS (because I wanted it, and also an excuse to try QGIS) to try and work out where we can afford to start a housing co-op.
I fucking hate paying #rent so much.
People who are not me have taken well over £100,000 from me over the last 40 years. Imagine what I could have done with that sort of money by now.
I fucking hate that it's my fault if I can't bear to prostitute myself long and hard enough to raise this sort of money any more, to appease those who own it all.
Brothers and sisters, what are we to do?
Do folks have suggestions for how to use sociocratic principles in an asyncronous #DecisioMaking environment?
We're setting up a #HousingCoop, and there's lots of decisions to be made, and we want everyone to feel/be involved, but it's rare that we have a meeting that everyone can attend.
I'll be asking around in person this at #UKCommunitiesConference, but I thought I'd check in with the #sociocracy #fediverse crowd too! 👋
Very cool to be at the 1st birthday party of #FusionFields at #CoinStreet this evening (heading to #PieHouse shortly!)
#coop party!!
#HousingCoop #WorkerCoop #London #PieHouseCoop #CoinStreetCoop #FusionFieldsCoop
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