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Resources and Support Organizations

Welcome to the resources and support organizations page. Below you will find links to a variety or organization and resources.  If you have suggestions for something to add, let us know!

Contents

  • 1 Resource Manuals, Pamphlets, and Documents
  • 2 Organizations
    • 2.1 Cooperatives
    • 2.2 Community Land Trusts
  • 3 Books

Resource Manuals, Pamphlets, and Documents

  • Different Types of Housing Cooperatives
  • Co-ops 101
  • Cooperative Housing Toolbox
  • Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade
  • Housing Co-ops and Other Housing Alternatives chapter in a co-op manual produced by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives.
  • Mutual Housing California
  • Cooperative Equity and Ownership: An Introduction
  • Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth
  • Shared Equity Home Ownership
  • Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation: Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Housing
  • Preservation of Affordable Homeownership: A Continuum of Strategies
  • Managing Your Cooperative’s Equity
  • Housing Cooperatives in the US
  • The Co-operative Land Bank
  • Model for a Cooperative Societies Law
  • Model CA Conservation Easement
  • CA Citizen’s Guide to Land Use Planning

Organizations

  • International Co-op Alliance (ICA)
  • National Association of Housing Cooperatives
  • North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)
  • Co-op Network
  • Fellowship for Intentional Community
  • Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
  • National Housing Institute
  • Land Trust Alliance

Cooperatives

  • List of San Francisco Bay Area Cooperatives
  • Northeast Investment Cooperative
  • Ameen Housing Co-operative of CA

Community Land Trusts

  • Bay Area Community Land Trust
  • San Francisco Community Land Trust’s links and resource page
  • Dudley Street Community Land Trust

Books

  • The Community Land Trust Reader

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